Diagnosis & Treatment Conventional Treatment Conventional Treatment
High-tech assisted reproductive techniques (ART) like IVF may get a lot of attention from the media and the Internet, but the fact is most couples with infertility can be helped through "conventional" infertility treatments. Once a cause of infertility is diagnosed, physicians usually first consider treatment with fertility drugs and intrauterine insemination (IUI).
These fertility treatements are less intrusive and less expensive than ART procedures.Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
With intrauterine insemination (IUI), also referred to as artificial insemination, millions of sperm are placed directly into the uterus when the woman is most fertile, immediately prior to and during ovulation., artificial insemination
Ovulation Induction
Ovulation is dependent on a delicate and consistent balance of reproductive hormones. If the body does not produce these hormones in exactly the right way, a hormonal imbalance or deficiency -- referred to as ovulatory dysfunction -- can cause infertility in women. Treatment with gonadotropins or "fertility drugs" can increase the likelihood of getting pregnant. Fertility drugs work by stimulating inactive ovaries to ovulate or produce more than one egg at a time.
