title: Luteal phase deficiency. An underdiagnosed and overtreated reproductive endocrine disorder.
abstract: Although luteal phase deficiency is rather time consuming, expensive, and sometimes painful to diagnose and treat, this disease entity is associated with a high degree of treatment success. Physicians are encouraged to become more aware of luteal phase deficiency as a potential diagnosis in the infertile woman. If the recommendations are followed in the diagnosis and treatment of luteal phase deficiency, a high degree of success can be achieved in infertile couples who otherwise would be diagnosed as having idiopathic infertility (and be ineffectively treated).
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Soules
mesh_terms: D003338:Corpus Luteum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008183:Luteal Phase