A couple may be diagnosed with infertility only after 12 months of active sex life without contraception. If pregnancy does not occur within a year, do not despair. Normally, you will have to start by undergoing some examinations and tests to determine the cause and start treatment, if necessary. The sooner the cause of infertility is determined, the higher are your chances of conceiving and bearing a healthy child.
Female, male and combined infertility factors may be at work. Female factors include: ovulation cycle disruptions, absence or obstruction of fallopian tubes, endometrial disorders. Make factors: qualitative and quantitative changes in sperm. Combined infertility forms are cases of both partners showing fertility disorders.
(in vitro fertlization) — is an infertility treatment technique used in the case when the egg and the sperm cannot meet in a natural way. Fertilization is done at the lab and then the embryo is transferred into the woman’s body. If necessary donor materials can be recommended.
Assisted reproductive method when sperm got after testicular biopsy. Reproductologists use this method in case of male reproductive dysfunction, when sperm cannot be obtained in a regular way.
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(Intracytoplasmic sperm injection) — an assisted reproductive method of treating severe cases of male infertility. For this purpose the sperm are selected under the microscope and then one by one are injected into each egg.
A way of producing an image of an organ inside somebody’s body using sound waves
Intrauterine insemination is used in case of slight disorders of the reproductive function of one of the partners. Sperm of the husband or donor sperm is put into the uterus and fertilization happens in a natural way.
Assisted reproductive method when frozen from previous cycles material is used.
Assisted reproductive technique when donor eggs of a healthy woman are used for fertilization.