Abstract
Background. The aim of this hospital based long-term follow-up study was to further elucidate resolved and unresolved infertility in relation to risk factors and perinatal outcome considering treatment-related and treatment independent pregnancies.Methods. The study included all couples attending the out-patient clinic of the Department of Gynecology in Umea due to failure to initiate a pregnancy after at least 12 months during the period 1.1.1980 31.12. 1989. Data from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry consisting of all registered births during 1.1.1980 31.12. 1992 was linked to establish the number of children born.Results. Six hundred and ninety-one couples were analyzed, out of which 42% had a delivery outcome. Of these women. 53% conceived in relation to given treatment whereas 47% conceived treatment-independently. Women with ovulatory disorder had a cumulative delivery rate of 82%. whereas those with unexplained infertility and tubo-peritoneal pathology displayed delivery rates of 57% and 31% resp...
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