Unexplained subfertility: a pragmatic approach.
The treatment of infertility has made substantial progress over the last two decades. Infertility is said to be unexplained when a couple do not conceive and no definite cause could be identified. Unexplained subfertility continues to pose some difficulty in management principally because of the lack of a specific, and potentially treatable, abnormality and the treatment is generally empirical. In this review, an effort is made to define the current state of the art, efficient and cost-effective infertility care to permit the treatment of a larger number of patients suffering from unexplained subfertility within a reasonable time period.
El-Toukhy
Tarek A
TA
Assisted Conception Unit, 4th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust, St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT, UK. tarekeltoukhy@hotmail.com
D000465:Algorithms; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D008297:Male; D010062:Ovulation Induction; D011247:Pregnancy