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som
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08/05/06 - 06:52 PM

A 25-year-old woman presents to your office with her husband. The couple has been married for 3 years and has been trying to conceive for the past 2 years without any results. Her husband is 30 years old and has a four-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. None of them have any chronic medical condition. Which of the following etiologic categories is most commonly involved in female infertility?

A.

Peritoneal factor

B.

Ovulatory factor

C.

Tubo-uterine factor

D.

Cervical factor

E.

Unexplained infertility

msyamp
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08/05/06 - 07:52 PM

A. Peritoneal factor

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som
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08/05/06 - 08:47 PM

yeah, A is the answer given.

som
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08/05/06 - 08:51 PM

when I did my gyn rotation I saw so many cases of PCOS and thought that ovulatory factor has more to do with infertility.

frank100
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08/05/06 - 11:16 PM

nice to know

Cheke
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09/13/06 - 10:33 AM

Could you please explain why peritoneal factor?

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09/13/06 - 02:33 PM

remember pid is the most common coz of infertiltiy..adhesions alter tube dynamics for example..hence infertiltiy

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09/14/06 - 12:20 PM

then it shud be the tubouterine factor

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