INTRODUCTION Infertility affects approximately 6.7 million women in the United States. Couples with infertility have significantly more anxiety, depression, and stress. This is compounded by the fact that almost 40% of couples undergoing assisted reproduction technology still cannot conceive, which can have an ongoing effect on quality of life, marital adjustment, and sexual impact. AIM To as...

BACKGROUND Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) converts 5,10-methylene tetrahydrofolate to 5-methyl tetrahydrofolate and affects the activity of cellular cycles participating in nucleotide synthesis, DNA repair, genome stability, maintenance of methyl pool, and gene regulation. Genetically compromised MTHFR activity has been suggested to affect male fertility. The objective of the prese...

This case-control study was associated with a regional register of ectopic pregnancy between 1993 and 2000 in France. It included 803 cases of ectopic pregnancy and 1,683 deliveries and was powerful enough to investigate all ectopic pregnancy risk factors. The main risk factors were infectious history (adjusted attributable risk = 0.33; adjusted odds ratio for previous pelvic infectious disease...

Pelvic angiographic embolization is an effective procedure to provide haemostasis in patients with pelvic fractures. However, management with repeated follow-up radiographs may result in infertility. The study aimed to evaluate the risk of infertility following pelvic fracture treated with pelvic angiographic embolization in female patients. We used data from the National Health Insurance Resea...

background: with regard to the importance of preconception conditions in maternal health and fertility, preconception risk assessment makes treatment trends and pregnancy outcome more successful among infertile couples. this study has tried to investigate preconception risk assessment in infertile couples. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical survey conducted on 268 subjects,...

STUDY QUESTION Are severe depressive symptoms in women and men associated with individual and dyadic infertility-related stress in couples undergoing infertility treatment? SUMMARY ANSWER Severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with increased infertility-related distress at both the individual and partner level. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY?: An infertility diagnosis, the stress of ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, and may manifest differently, part related to sex-specific cardiovascular risk factors. In females, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are commonly used treat infertility, utilize controlled ovarian stimulation involving administration exogenous sex hormones. ART, especially stimulation, have been associated with an increased ...

BACKGROUND In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is the treatment of choice for unresolved infertility. It comprises a number of key steps, each of which has to be negotiated before the next is attempted, but the factors which are associated with failure at each stage have not been reported. METHODS AND FINDINGS We analyzed anonymised national data on women undergoing their first fresh autologous IVF ...

Background: Infertility is a major public health problem in Nigeria, contributing to inappropriate contraceptive behavior and poor sexual and reproductive health of women. To date, there is a paucity of scientific information relating to the factors that place men and women at risk of infertility in this population. Objectives: The objectives of this thesis are: (1) to provide substantive scien...