On February 26th, the Vijayawada Obstetrics & Gynaecological Society organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) on infertility, with a focus on translating research into daily practice. The speaker for the event was Dr G A Rama Raju, who discussed two important topics related to infertility treatment. The first topic covered by Dr. Raju was applicable […]
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The article provides an overview of infertility and ART in India, highlighting the causes, challenges, and opportunities for improving access to quality care. The authors discuss how infertility affects millions of couples in India, especially women, who face social stigma, discrimination, and violence due to their inability to conceive. They also explain how various factors
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Dr. G A Rama Raju is a senior infertility specialist and a pioneer in reproductive medicine¹. He is the founder and medical director of Krishna IVF Clinic, one of the leading IVF centers in India¹ . He has been practicing in the assisted reproduction domain for more than 28 years, and has held several adjunct
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Overcoming Emotional, Communication, and Intimacy Challenges” The society, the friends, and the doctors treating them seldom realize what the couple is going through. They include some or all of the below Emotional stress: Communication issues: Intimacy problems Financial stress: Blame and guilt: “Infertility can pose various challenges and emotions for couples in a relationship. Some
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After completion of the investigations, clinicians write out the list of problems the couple has. If it is one factor or two factors or multiple factors. The second thing is we should tell them what is the appropriate treatment and we should also tell them is that the only treatment or a second option is
A couple should visit an infertility clinic only if they fail to get pregnant after trying for 12 months. There are some exceptions when a couple needs to visit before 12 months. The first one is irregular cycles, which means that the periods are longer than 45 days to 3 months. The second one is
Following your visit to a gynaecologist or an infertility specialist sometimes, they say your ovaries are smaller. Every woman is born with a fixed number of eggs and they start declining as they reach menopause. At the time of their first menstrual cycle, there are close to 400 000 eggs and by the time they
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Thyroid hormone disturbance is very common in women than in men. And it constitutes between 3 to 10 percent out of every 100 women. In the area of reproductive medicine, the common hormones we check are the thyroid hormone, the prolactin hormone and in the ovarian reserves, we check the AMH levels. Here I’ll be
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In a semen analysis report, sometimes you find a word called teratozoospermia. What we essentially look at, is the volume, the count, the motility, and the quality of the sperm which is also known as morphology. When the morphology of the sperm is abnormal, then we say teratozoospermia. The sperm has 3 components, the head,
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In a natural pregnancy, if 100 couples conceive 15 to 20 of them lose the pregnancy. Abortion happens for various reasons. The most common cause for abortion in a woman who conceives normally is an abnormal genetic material also known as aneuploidy. It is nature’s quality control to prevent an abnormal pregnancy or abnormal baby
