Infertility in Women

Infertility

Infertility in Women

A common cause of female infertility is the blockage of the Fallopian tubes, often caused by a sexually transmitted infection.

As already mentioned, the cause of a couple's infertility may lie with the man or the woman, or both. If medical tests prove the man to be fertile the examining physician will start a new series of tests on the woman. One possible cause of female infertility is endometriosis. A woman may also be sterile because of certain congenital defects, or as a result of certain internal infections especially gonorrhea. Such infections may have led to a permanent blocking of the Fallopian tubes, thus making fertilization impossible. In some cases, there is no ovulation and therefore no egg that could be fertilized. In other cases, fertilization does take place but the fertilized egg invariably fails to attach itself to the uterine wall. In still other instances, both fertilization and implantation occur, only to be followed by early spontaneous abortions (miscarriages). The reason for this may be some abnormality of the uterus or the cervix. In certain women, the cervical mucus is too thick to be penetrated by sperm; in others, the cervical or vaginal fluids are hostile to the sperm and kill it. Sometimes women develop antibodies which appear in the vagina and produce an immunity to all sperm or to the sperm of a particular man.

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