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Original Research
Anew classification for female infertility
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1 Research and Clinical Center for Infertility, Shaheed Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd
2 Center for Disease Control, Deputy Ministry for Health Affairs, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran
3 Human Genetics Department, Shaheed Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd (Iran)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2011, 38(4), 379–381;
Published: 10 December 2011
Abstract

Infertility is defined as the inability of a couple to conceive after 12 months of regular, unprotected intercourse. However infertilityis a climical presentation and not a disease. Thus to be able to offer a new classification, it is necessary to apply a clinical presentation(philosophy) suggested by the University of Calgary in 1991. In recent years several classification algorithms have been proposed which apply key predictors of clinical, imaging. or morphological types to determine the diseases that can cause infertility. On the other hand.an algorithm is a product of an expert's mind after many years of practice and experience, which is too difficult to understand by amedical student. However there has not been any simple schematic classification based on a logical justification applying integration of etiologies with basic science to break down etiologies into categories, subcategories and disease classes of this clinical presentation. Because etiology has also become an important criterion for the characterization of causes of inferility, a classification proposal is pre-sented here that attempts to include all relevant (basic science) features of the causative diseases of this clinical presentation.
Keywords
Infertility
Clinical presentation
Etiology
Classification
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