IRHRC ANNUAL MEETING REPRODUCTIVE AND INFERTILITY UPDATES | Year:2016 | دوره:9 |Papers Count:62

BACKGROUND AND AIM: POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS) IS THE MOST COMMON ENDOCRINE DISORDER AFFECTING 5-18% OF WOMEN, BUT ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF THESE WOMEN HAVE BEEN FORMALLY DIAGNOSED.

INTRODUCTION: ALTHOUGH OCCURRENCE OF CANCER DURING PREGNANCY IS RARE, IT LEADS TO HIGH MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN BOTH MOTHER AND FETUS. RECENT TRENDS IN PROLONGATION OF CHILD-BEARING AGE HAVE MADE CANCER-ASSOCIATED PREGNANCIES MORE FREQUENT THAN PAST. AS YET THERE ARE FEW DOCUMENTS CONCERNING CANCER AND ITS RELATED TREATMENT OUTCOMES DURING PREGNANCY. THIS STUDY AIMED AT DESCRIBING CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PREGNANT WOMEN WITH CANCER IN THE SHAHID SADOUGHI HOSPITAL IN YAZD, IRAN...

INTRODUCTION: THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF MALE INFERTILITY IS VARICOCELE, WHICH IS DEFINED BY DILATATION OF THE VEINS OF THE PAMPINIFORM PLEXUS. THE INCIDENCE OF VARICOCELE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION AND IN MEN PRESENTI IS ESTIMATED 15% TO 22%...

OBJECTIVE: TO EVALUATE FERTILITY OUTCOMES FROM MEN WITH IDIOPATHIC CRYPTOZOOSPERMIA TREATED WITH INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI) BY FRESH EJACULATED SPERM VERSUS TESTIS SPERM EXTRACTION (TESE) OR PERCUTANEOUS EPIDEDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION (PESA)...

INTRODUCTION: THE HUMAN Y CHROMOSOME IS CRUCIAL FOR HUMAN SEX DETERMINATION AND SPERMATOGENESIS. THE LONG ARM CONTAINS THE AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR (AZF) REGION.MICRODELETIONS IN THIS REGION ARE IN CHARGE OF MALE INFERTILITY...

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT FOR PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA HAS A FAILURE RATE OF 20% TO 25% AND MAY BE CONTRAINDICATED OR NOT TOLERATED BY SOME WOMEN. HERBAL MEDICINE MAY BE A SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE. TO DETERMINE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF IRANIAN HERBAL MEDICINE FOR PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA WHEN COMPARED WITH PLACEBO...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION THAT OFFER NOVEL INFERTILITY THERAPIES, AND THE STEADY INCREASE OF ART USERS, POSE A PRESSING PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE. THUS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ASSESS WHAT IS THE HEALTH IMPACT OF ART ON ITS DIRECT AND INDIRECT USERS, E.G. MOTHERS AND INFANTS.

THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF PERMETHRIN ON THE TESTES OF ADULT WISTAR RATS, AND EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF ONION JUICE SUPPLEMENTATION. THE MALE RATS WERE DIVIDED INTO 5...

BACKGROUND: LEPTIN IS PROPOSED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OF WOMEN BY ACTING ON EITHER OVARIES OR HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY AXIS.THE PURPOSE OF THE PRESENT STUDY WAS THEREFORE TO COMPARE SERUM LEPTIN LEVELS IN WOMEN WITH OVERWEIGHT AND UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY.

WE WANTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS OF ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) GENE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MALE INFERTILITY. THIS STUDY COMPRISED 176 MEN WITH IDIOPATHIC INFERTILITY AND 352 HEALTHY FERTILE MEN WHO SERVED AS CONTROLS...

HYDATID DISEASE, AFFECTED BY ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS, IS A FREQUENT LARVA INFESTATION OF THE LIVER. HYDATID CYST DISEASE IN A PREGNANT WOMAN IS AN EXTREMELY OCCASIONAL DISORDER WITH FREQUENCY OF 1/20000 GESTATIONS. WE REPORT HERE AN UNCOMMON CASE OF HYDATID CYST DISEASE OF THE LIVER IN A 25 YEARS OLD WOMAN PRESENTING IN HER ROUTINE PRENATAL CARE.

CONTEXT. THE ANDROGEN/ANDROGEN RECEPTOR INTERACTION PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MALE GENITAL SYSTEM, AND INVESTIGATIONS AROUND THESE RECEPTORS CAN EXPAND OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MECHANISMS OF SOME MALE ABNORMALITIES SUCH AS HYPOSPADIAS...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS (HTLV-1, 2) IS A HUMAN RETROVIRUS WHICH HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE ADULT T-CELL LEUKEMIA/LYMPHOMA (ATLL), TISSUE NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITISE, TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS AND SOME OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS.

MALE INFERTILITY IS A COMPLEX PROBLEM AND THE USE OF IMAGING TECHNIQUES IS OFTEN ESSENTIAL IN PROVIDING ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS AND APPROPRIATE TREATMENT. FOLLOWING ROUTINE HISTORY, EXAMINATION AND BLOOD TESTS, IMAGING IS FREQUENTLY UTILIZED IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE SCROTAL CONTENTS FOR TESTICULAR VOLUME AND MORPHOLOGY...

INTRODUCTION: IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 48.5 MILLION COUPLES WORLDWIDE ARE UNABLE TO CONCEIVE, AND AT LEAST 40% TO 50% OF THE CASES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY. A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE REPORTED AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MALE INFERTILITY AND DENTAL DISEASE, THUS SEEMS TO BE A POSITIVE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE TWO CASES.

INTRODUCTION: MALE INFERTILITY IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM AND IS SEEN IN ABOUT ONE-FIFTH OF INFERTILE COUPLES. A VARIETY OF FACTORS CAN REDUCE PRODUCTION OR FUNCTION OF SPERM BY DECREASE SPERM COUNT OR MOTILITY, OR IMPAIR THEIR ABILITY TO FERTILIZE THE EGG. EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO CERTAIN PATHOGEN ORGANISMS THAT IT MAY CAUSE INFLAMMATION INTO ACUTE AND CHRONIC GENITAL TRACT INFECTIONS IS ONE OF THE SIGNIFICANT FACTORS THAT CAUSE INFERTILITY. APPROXIMATELY 15% OF INFERTILITY CASES ARE CAUSED BY INFECTION.

INTRODUCTION: APPROXIMATELY 10% OF COUPLES ARE UNSUCCESSFUL IN ACHIEVING A PREGNANCY WITHIN 1 YEAR. IN AT LEAST 50% OF THESE CASES THE MALE FACTOR IS INVOLVED. HUMAN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES (ARTS) ARE USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY. MANY STUDIES HAVE SHOWN HOW A ‘PATERNAL EFFECT’ CAN CAUSE REPEATED ART FAILURES.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: ADDICTION IS A PERSISTENT, COMPULSIVE DEPENDENCE ON A BEHAVIOR OR SUBSTANCE. THERE ARE SOME TYPES OF ADDICTIONS AND ONE OF THEM IS OPIATE ADDICTION. OPIATE ADDICTION IS NOW BECOMING A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM AS 13-22 MILLION PEOPLE ARE AFFLICTED AND ASIA ENCOMPASSES MORE THAN HALF OF THAT...

INTRODUCTION: ILLICIT DRUGS AS OXIDATIVE FACTOR CAN BE AN IMPORTANT CAUSE OF MALE INFERTILITY. MORPHINE IS A DRUG SUBSTANCE THAT HAS BEEN USED IN THE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EASE THE PAIN RISING AND IT HAS HARMFUL EFFECTS ON DIFFERENT BODY ORGANS INCLUDING THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM...

INTRODUCTION: BREAST CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON MALIGNANCY WHICH DIAGNOSED CANCER ENCOUNTERED WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGES.25% OF ALL WOMEN IN THE WORLD CHARACTERIZED WITH BREAST CANCER ARE PREMENOPAUSAL, AND 15% ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 45 YEARS. BREAST CANCER IS TREATED WITH SURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY...

INTRODUCTION: IN RECENT YEARS THE RATE OF MALE INFERTILITY HAS INCREASED RAPIDLY, HOWEVER, THE MALE SUBFERTILITY FREQUENCY IS UNKNOWN. SEVERAL STUDIES INDICATED THAT, EXCEPT THE COMMON FACTORS OF MALE INFERTILITY SUCH AS: MEDICAL, OCCUPATIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, LIFE STYLE AND DIETARY PATTERN, ROLE OF SOME MICRONUTRIENT IS KNOWN TOO...

OBJECTIVE: IN RECENT CENTURY, AIR POLLUTION IS COMMON IN ALL COUNTRIES AND AFFECT REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTIONS. IT PARTICULARLY IMPACTS PREGNANCY OUTCOME IN WOMEN AND CHANGES SPERM PARAMETERS IN MEN. THE AIM OF THIS META-ANALYSIS WAS TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF AIR POLLUTION ON QUALITY OF SPERM...

BACKGROUND: MOTHERS’ EMPOWERMENT IN BREAST-FEEDING IS A KEY MOTIVATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR FOR CONTINUOUS BREAST-FEEDING. THEREFORE, THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY-CENTERED EDUCATIONAL-SUPPORTIVE PROGRAM ON MOTHERS’ EMPOWERMENT IN BREASTFEEDING...

BACKGROUND: MOST MEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE NOW OWN MOBILE (CELL) TELEPHONES.ACCOMPANYING THIS INCREASE IN MOBILE PHONE OWNERSHIP, THERE IS CONCERN OVER THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE ON HUMAN HEALTH. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (RF-EMR) FROM THESE DEVICES ARE DETRIMENTAL TO HUMAN FERTILITY...

INTRODUCTION: BY THE EMERGENCE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (ART), THERE HAVE APPEARED A WIDE ARRAY OF ETHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND LEGAL CONCERNS AROUND THIS ISSUE, MANY OF WHICH IS NOT CLEARLY SOLVED YET. THE AIM OF THIS LECTURE IS TO ADDRESS SOME PRACTICAL INSTANCES OF THESE CONSIDERATIONS...

BACKGROUND: POOR OVARIAN RESPONSE TO GONADOTROPHINS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF IVF TREATMENT. FSHR AND ESR1 ARE EFFECTIVE GENES ON OUTCOMES OF COH. TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN GENOTYPES AND ALLELS OF POLYMORPHISMS ON ESTROGEN RECEPTOR (ESR1) (-29G/A) AND FSH RECEPTOR (FSHR) (XBAI G/A) GENES WITH OVARIAN RESPONSE, CAN PREDICT OUTCOMES OF COH IN IVF CYCLES.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES (OCS), CONSIDERED AS THE MOST COMMON SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENT OF POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS) CONTAIN A COMBINATION OF ESTROGEN AND PROGESTIN. THE MAIN POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF OCS ACTION, INCLUDE INHIBITION OF FOLLICULOGENESIS, THE DIRECT EFFECT ON OVARIAN FOLLICULOGENESIS...

OBJECTIVE: PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA, SOMETIMES WITH ONE OR MORE SYSTEMIC SYMPTOMS AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE BLEEDING. WE CONDUCTED A DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMIZED PLACEBO CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF VALERIAN ON THE BLEEDING AND SYSTEMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF MENSTRUATION...

BACKGROUND: ABOUT 50% OF THE INFERTILITY WERE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE MALE FACTOR AND MOST OF THE CASES WERE FOUND TOGETHER WITH THE ABNORMAL SEMEN PARAMETERS. ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT HAS BEEN USED IN SEVERAL STUDIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE MALE INFERTILITY. THE AIM OF THIS REVIEW IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT ON MALE REPRODUCTION.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF CHEMICALS THAT THESE CHEMICALS ARE RELEASED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AND POSE A SEVERE THREAT TO THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS OF WILDLIFE AND HUMANS BY INTERFERING WITH NORM GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNCTIONS...

INTRODUCTION: SURROGACY IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ART METHODS WHICH IS USED WHEN A WOMAN IS NOT ABLE TO BREED A FETUS THROUGH PREGNANCY IN HER OWN UTERUS. GESTATIONAL SURROGACY IS APPROVED BY LAW AND RELIGION IN IRAN. INFERTILE MEN'S DECISIONS BETWEEN POSSIBLE TREATMENTS ARE INFLUENCED BY THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE MEN' S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD SURROGACY.

OBJECTIVES: THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE STIMULATED WHOLE SALIVA 17-ESTRADIOL OF MENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH/WITHOUT ORAL DRYNESS (OD) FEELING, AND EVALUATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SALIVA 17-ESTRADIOL AND SEVERITY OF OD FEELING...

BACKGROUND: INFERTILITY IS A COMMON PROBLEM, AFFECTING PERHAPS ONE COUPLE IN SIX, THE MAJORITY OF WHOM NOW SEEK MEDICAL CARE. ALTHOUGH DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEMS MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH THE EXTENT OF THE MALE PARTNER'S CONTRIBUTION WITH CERTAINTY...

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EPIGENETICS AND HUMAN REPRODUCTION REPRESENTS A VERY INTERESTING FIELD OF STUDY, MAINLY DUE TO THE POSSIBLE TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS RELATED TO EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE GAMETES. THE MAIN EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION ARE REPRESENTED BY DNA METHYLATION, HISTONE MODIFICATIONS, AND SMALL, NON-CODING RNAS.

BACKGROUND: INFERTILITY IS A MAJOR STRESSOR IN LIFE AND CAN CAUSE DISTURBANCES IN BOTH SEXUAL AND MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS. THEREFORE, THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE FREQUENCY OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS AMONG INFERTILE COUPLES.

BACKGROUND: ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (EMR) HAS BEEN INCREASING WITH THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES AS INTERNET. THE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS TO DISCUSS THE EFFECT OF EMR ON MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM AND SPERM QUALITY...

INTRODUCTION: VARICOCELE IS A COMMON FINDING AMONG MEN WITH INFERTILITY AND ITS REPAIR HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF SURGICAL THERAPY. THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY IS TO COMPARE VARIOUS TECHNIQUES AND THEIR RESULTS TO DESCRIBE THE BEST METHOD FOR TREATING VARICOCELE IN INFERTILE MEN AND SPONTANEOUS PREGNANCY RATES AND/OR COMPLICATION RATES AFTER VARICOCELE REPAIR USING VARIOUS TECHNIQUES IN INFERTILE MEN WITH PALPABLE UNILATERAL OR BILATERAL VARICOCELE.

INTRODUCTION: METABOLIC SYNDROME IS ONE OF THE CAUSE MALE INFERTILITY.IT IS INCIDENCE ABOUT 20–25% OF WORLDWIDE POPULATION.METABOLIC SYNDROME IN THE MALE ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM. PREVIOUS STUDIES IN THE PATIENT WITH METABOLIC...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: AN INFERTILITY DIAGNOSIS CAN HAVE GRAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR BOTH MEMBERS OF A COUPLE. INFERTILITY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH “A FORM OF CHRONIC STRESS THAT CAN GIVE RISE TO A VARIETY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES”, AND HAS ALSO BEEN LINKED WITH DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, MARITAL DIFFICULTIES, IDENTITY PROBLEMS AND LOWER RESILIENCE.

BACKGROUND: ROYAL JELLY HAS BEEN USED SINCE ANCIENT TIME AS A SUPPLEMENT FOR NUTRITION, ANTI-AGING AND INFERTILITY. IN THIS STUDY, WE CONSIDER THE EFFECT OF ROYAL JELLY ON MALE RELATED FACTOR INFERTILITY IN RATS...

BACKGROUND: DIAZINON (DZN) IS AN ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE WIDELY UTILIZED IN AGRICULTURE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND CAUSES MANY NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON PLANTS AND ANIMAL SPECIES, ESPECIALLY ON HUMAN. THE AIM OF PRESENT STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF DZN ON APOPTOSIS OF OVARIAN FOLLICLES IN ADULT RATS AND TO ASSESS THE PROTECTIVE ROLE OF VIT E.

OBJECTIVES: THERE ARE SOME STUDIES HAVE REPORTED THAT PERIODONTAL DISEASES CAN CAUSE INFERTILITY AND ALSO AFFECT INFERTILITY TREATMENT BY DIFFERENT MECHANISMS. SO THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO EXPLORE THE ASSOCIATION OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND INFERTILITY...

BACKGROUND: TOBACCO SMOKING COMPROMISED OXYGEN DELIVERY AND WAS SUSPECTED TO HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON TESTICLE FUNCTIONS BUT STUDIES EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF SMOKING ON SPERM PARAMETERS HAVE PRODUCED CONTROVERSIAL RESULTS EVEN AFTER 30 YEARS RESEARCH...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: MALE MENOPAUSE” IS THE MORE COMMON TERM FOR ANDROPAUSE. IT DESCRIBES AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN MALE HORMONE LEVELS. THE SAME GROUP OF SYMPTOMS IS ALSO KNOWN AS TESTOSTERONE DEFICIENCY, ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY, AND LATE-ONSET HYPOGONADISM. MALE MENOPAUSE INVOLVES A DROP IN TESTOSTERONE PRODUCTION IN MEN WHO ARE AGE 30 OR OLDER. IT’S OFTEN AFFILIATED WITH HYPOGONADISM. BOTH CONDITIONS INVOLVE LOWERED TESTOSTERONE LEVELS AND SIMILAR SYMPTOMS...

TESTICULAR GRAFTING HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A METHOD TO PRESERVE FERTILITY IN PREPUBERTAL BOYS UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT. THIS TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN USED RECENTLY TO DIFFERENTIATE THE NEONATAL TESTES OF DIFFERENT SPECIES.

TESTICULAR DESCENT IS A MAIN PART OF NORMAL SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT IN BOYS. THIS SENSITIVE PROCESS INVOLVES DESCENDING TESTICLES FROM INTRA-ABDOMINAL LOCATION INTO THE EXTRAABDOMINAL SCROTAL SAC. IT IS SOMETIMES INSUFFICIENT AND RESULTS IN CRYPTORCHIDISM...

BACKGROUND: RECURRENT ABORTIONS IS CLASSICALLY DEFINED AS THE LOSS OF THREE OR MORE CONSECUTIVE PREGNANCIES BEFORE THE 20TH WEEK OF GESTATION, WHICH OCCURS IN 15-20% OF CLINICALLY RECOGNIZED GESTATIONS. IN 4%-8% OF COUPLES WITH RECURRENT ABORTION, AT LEAST ONE OF THE PARTNERS HAS CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY...

BACKGROUND: MALE INFERTILITY AFFECTS>20 MILLION MEN WORLDWIDE AND REPRESENTS A MAJOR HEALTH CONCERN. MALE FACTORS ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT 40% OF INFERTILITY IN THE WORLD. GENETIC MECHANISMS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AS A SIGNIFICANT CAUSE OF SOME CASES OF MALE INFERTILITY.

OBJECTIVES: IN PRESENT STUDY WE INVESTIGATED WHETHER LONG TERM EXPOSURE TO 50 HZ POWER FREQUENCY ELECTRIC FIELD OF 1.01×103 V/M AND THE MAGNETIC FIELD FLUX DENSITY OF 3 MT HAVE EFFECTS ON OVARY, UTERUS AND SERUM TOTAL ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY IN RATS AND IF ALLIUM CEPA AND COULD MODERATE POTENTIAL ADVERSE EFFECTS...

BACKGROUND: ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT, SUCH AS RADIOTHERAPY AND CHEMOTHERAPY, EFFECT ON CELL WITH HIGHER PROLIFERATION RATE. GERM CELLS BASED ON HIGH PROLIFERATION RATE, INJURY AND DEATH THAT FINALLY DUE TO THE REDUCED FERTILITY OR COMPLETE INFERTILITY. THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE OF EFFECTS OF COLLAGEN AND GROWTH FACTORS ON IN VITRO PROLIFERATION OF HSSCS OBTAINED FROM NONOBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIC PATIENTS...

INTRODUCTION: INFERTILITY AFFECTS APPROXIMATELY 15% OF COUPLES, AND IN ABOUT ONE-THIRD THE PRIMARY CAUSE IS A MALE FACTOR. PATIENTS UNDERGOING INFERTILITY INVESTIGATIONS FREQUENTLY EXPERIENCE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, WHICH OFTEN IS DUE TO INADEQUATE VAGINAL LUBRICATION...

OBJECTIVES: INFERTILE COUPLES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, SUFFER FROM ENGAGING IN INFERTILITY TREATMENTS BUT MEN AND THEIR PERSPECTIVE OF INFERTILITY ARE GENERALLY UNDERSTUDIES. SO THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF INFERTILITY ON MEN...

BACKGROUND: PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA IS THE MOST COMMON GYNAECOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN MENSTRUATING WOMEN.THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE FOENICULUM VULGARE CLINICAL EFFECT ON PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA.

INTRODUCTION: HYPERTENSION (HTN) IS DEFINED AS A BLOOD PRESSURE GREATER THAN 130.85MMHG AND IT REPRESENTS A MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. WHILE HYPERTENSION IS A WELLESTABLISHED RISK FACTOR FOR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (ED), THE DIRECT EFFECT ON MALE FERTILITY.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: SOME INFERTILE MEN ARE ASTHENOZOOSPERMIC BECAUSE OF POOR SPERM MOTILITY. THE CAUSE OF ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA HAS NOT YET BEEN ELUCIDATED, ALTHOUGH LIFESTYLE CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS DIETARY HABITS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED. THE MOST RECENT EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES SUPPORTED STRONGLY THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET (MD) MAY PLAY A ROLE IN PREVENTING CHRONIC DISEASES. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE ASSOCIATION OF MD WITH ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA...

OBJECTIVES: DIAZINON (DZN) IS AN ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE WHICH IS KNOWN TO INDUCE OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE TARGET TISSUES SUCH AS THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. THE AIM OF PRESENT STUDY WAS TO COMPARE AND EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF DZN ON MALONDIALDEHYDE (MDA) AND GLUTATHIONE (GSH) LEVELS IN TESTIS AND OVARY OF RATS AND TO ASSESS THE PROTECTIVE ROLE OF VITAMIN E.

BACKGROUND: ANDROPAUSE IN MEN REFERS TO THE CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH ADVANCED AGE AND CHARACTERIZED BY A DEFICIENCY IN SERUM TESTOSTERONE LEVELS. WITH THE INCREASE IN AGING MALE POPULATION AND LIFE SPAN IN IRAN AND FOCUS ON QUALITY OF LIFE, ANDROPAUSE WILL BECOME A MAJOR HEALTH ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED IN ORDER TO PREVENT DISABILITY...

BACKGROUND: HUMAN SEMEN QUALITY IS CONSIDERED AS AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.QUALITY OF SEMEN CAN BE AFFECTED BY SOCIOECONOMIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, BEHAVIOR AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO REVIEW INDIVIDUAL FACTORS AND SEMEN QUALITY IN MALE...

INTRODUCTION: THE PELVIC FLOOR IS COMPOSED OF PERITONEUM, VISCERA, ENDOPELVIC FASCIA, LEVATOR ANI MUSCLES, THE PERINEAL MEMBRANE, AND EXTERNAL GENITAL MUSCLES. THE NORMAL FUNCTIONS OF PELVIC FLOOR DEPENDS ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MUSCLE FUNCTION, NERVE, CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND BONE...

INTRODUCTION: VARICOCELE CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST COMMON CORRECTABLE PATHOLOGY FOUND IN YOUNG MEN WITH INFERTILITY.IN MALE HYPOGONADAL PATIENTS WITH HYPOTHALAMIC OR PITUITARY GLAND DYSFUNCTION GNRH AND/OR GONADOTHROPHIN HAS BEEN APPLIED SUCCESSFULLY FOR MANY YEARS.(6) WE DECIDED TO STUDY THE STIMULATING EFFECT OF HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN (HCG) ON SPERMATOGENESIS IN PATIENTS WITH VARICOCELE AND AZOOSPERMIA.

OBJECTIVE: HERBAL MEDICINE HAS BEEN USED IN MANY NATIONS TO TREAT MALE INFERTILITY PROBLEMS. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO REVIEW MEDICINAL PLANTS THAT PROPOSED TO IMPROVE SPERM ABNORMALITIES IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE.

A SEMEN ANALYSIS IS GENERALLY PERFORMED AS THE FIRST STEP IN MALE FERTILITY EVALUATION.ALTHOUGH CONVENTIONAL SEMEN ANALYSES PROVIDE VALUABLE DATA ABOUT MALE FERTILITY, THE SUCCESS OF INTRA-CYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI) CANNOT BE PREDICTED USING THIS METHOD.IN RECENT YEARS, IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBE THAT BIOMARKER BASED SPERM QUALITY EVALUATION BESIDE THE CONVENTIONAL SEMEN ANALYSIS CAN HELP CLINICIANS FOR THE PREDICTION OF HUMAN MALE INFERTILITY...