Infertility

This is defined as inability to conceive for 12 months, during which approximately 80–90% of couples desirous of pregnancy will have done so. The prevalence is 14%, at least half of couples complaining of secondary infertility. The infertility will remain unresolved in 3–4% of couples. The mean time to pregnancy rises from 6 months in women at all ages attempting their first pregnancy to 15 months in a 35 year old undergoing artificial insemination with donor sperm (DI) or more than 7 years if, in addition, this patient has been treated for endometriosis. The monthly probability of pregnancy (fecundability) expressed as the reciprocal of the mean time required for conception in months falls from 0.4 in the 25 year old attempting her first pregnancy to 0.008 after 2 years of unexplained infertility. Similar content being viewed by others Author information Authors and Affiliations Rights and permissions Copyright information © 2000 Springer-Verlag London Limited About this chapter Cite this chapter Stabile, I., Chard, T., Grudzinskas, G. (2000). Infertility. In: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85919-9_30 Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85919-9_30 Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg Print ISBN: 978-3-540-78083-0 Online ISBN: 978-3-642-85919-9 eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

- Premature Ovarian Failure - Unexplained Infertility - Donor Sperm - Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome - Male Factor Infertility These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.