Review Article
Infertility: A Review on Causes, Treatment and Management
Shahnaz Anwar and Ayesha Anwar
Correspondence Address :
Shahnaz Anwar
MScN, RM, RN, Senior Instructor & Midwifery Programme
Coordinator
The Aga Khan School of Nursing and Midwifery
Stadium Road Karachi
Pakistan
Tel: 2259578, 02134935432
Email: shahnaz.shahid@aku.edu
Received on: May 20, 2016, Accepted on: June 10, 2016, Published on: June 16, 2016
Citation: Shahnaz Anwar, Ayesha Anwar (2016). Infertility: A Review on Causes, Treatment and Management
Copyright: 2016 Shahnaz Anwar, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
For healthy young couples, the likelihood of getting pregnancy varies. In 2010, an estimated 48.5 million couples worldwide were infertile [1]. This paper provides a review on infertility causes, investigations, treatment modalities and role of nurse midwife in dealing with infertile couples. Infertility (a state of subfertility) can be manifested either as the inability to become pregnant, inability to uphold a pregnancy, and inability to continue a pregnancy till term [2,3]. There are various causes of female and male infertility. A vast number of investigations can be done to rule out the exact cause of infertility both in males and females. There are various treatment modalities that may be useful for the infertile couples. Although, for infertility treatment, couples visit gynecologists, but along with them the nurse midwives' play an important role to help the couple explore and identify problems related to reproductive health and coordinate with multidisciplinary team to promote and maintain reproductive health.
Keywords: Infertility, Subfertility, Ovulation, Implantation, Role of midwife/ nurse