Background: Infertility is associated with high levels of stress which can pose a tremendous challenge on treatment. These psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety among the barrens are very important and have a crucial role as well. On-time detection and evaluation of such disorders are effective in the successful treatment of infertility. Some variables can interfere and influen...

From July 1994 to February 2001, 60 patients underwent varicocoele surgery in the Day Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, PRC. The mean age of these patients was 25.9 years (ranged 9–66). Their symptoms included pain/discomfort (41.7%), mass/swelling (36.7%), infertility (8.3%) and cosmetic reasons (1.7%). In seven patients the indication was not clearly de...

It is well known that maternal ageing not only causes increased spontaneous abortion and reduced fertility, but it is also a high genetic disease risk. Although assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have been widely used to treat infertility, the overall success is still low. The main reasons for age-related changes include reduced follicle number, compromised oocyte quality especially aneu...

Cervical insufficiency is one of the most frequent reasons for late miscarriage and preterm birth. Its rate increased in women who conceived after use additional reproductive technologies. The objective: to assess parameters cervical elastography with anovulatory infertility a history. Materials methods. 40 pregnant treatment associated anovulation were examined term 16–20 weeks: I group (20 pe...

In this report, our early experience with screening, monitoring and coordinating IVF utilising gestational carrier treatment is described. Although congenital and iatrogenic etiologies for uterine factor infertility manifest distinctly different reasons for considering a gestational carrier approach, we outline a unified management strategy for both conditions. One patient had congenital absenc...

Involuntary culling (IC) is where a cow is disposed of due to injury, poor health or infertility. The main reasons for IC are infertility, mastitis and lameness. These reasons have differing age profiles in when they affect cows, cost variable amounts to treat and have an effect on the value of the cow at market. They also reduce cow welfare in different ways. These factors influence the econom...

Background: Infertile women suffering from more psychological distress than other people. Women with involuntary childlessness have higher depression scores than others. Psychological factors are predictor for successive treatment and fertility. Cognize needs to be taken of these factors for effective treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative frequency of depressive disorder...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was 2-fold: first, to investigate couples' reasons for not using cryopreserved embryos within the maximum storage period; second, to study their attitudes towards potential embryo donation for specific purposes. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to 284 IVF/ICSI couples who experienced destruction of their cryopreserved embryos (n=1180) because the cryopreservati...

Background: Couples unable to conceive and bear children could feel deep disappointment, often leading depression. Infertility is one of the main reasons couples are not able have children. Genetic counseling role in infertility ranges from explanation about possible genetic causes infertility, pregnancy planning, advice for treatment. Case Presentation: A couple with 16 years was referred clin...