Human Infertility

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This paper explains that, not becoming pregnancy after a year of frequent intercourse without the use of contraception, a couple should go to a health-care professional for a fertility evaluation. In some cases, such as woman over 30, irregular menstruation, three or more miscarriages or a history of various infections, the couple should seek help earlier. The paper points out that it is a myth that infertility is always a "woman's problem"; of the 80 percent of cases with a diagnosed cause, about half are based at least partially on male problems, such as not producing sperm, called azoospermia, or too few sperm, called oligospermia. The paper states that 80-90 percent of infertility cases are treated with drugs or surgery; other treatments are artificial insemination and the assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization with the own woman's eggs.

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"Donor egg IVF is for women who, for example, have impaired ovaries or carry a genetic disease that can be transferred to the offspring. Eggs are donated by another healthy woman and fertilized in the lab with the male partner's sperm before being transferred to the female partner's uterus. Frozen embryos in which excess embryos are frozen, to be thawed in the future if the woman doesn't get pregnant on the first cycle or wants another baby in the future. New treatments for male factors are fast-evolving."

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