[A six-year review of patients attending the sterility clinic (author's transl)]. / Bericht über 6 Jahre Sterilitätsambulanz

The paper reports the therapeutic results achieved in patients attending the sterility clinic over the period 1969-1974. Altogether 540 couples were examined and treated. The average age of the female patients in this series was 29,6 years; the length of time over which pregnancy had been attempted averaged 3.9 years. Sterility was attributable to the female partner in 54.3% of the cases, to the male partner in 32.4% and to both spoused in 3%. No apparent cause for the sterility was detected in 10.3% of the cases. 209 pregnancies occurred following treatment, corresponding to an overall success rate of 38.7%, or 40.6% when due allowance is made for the 27 cases in whom the outlook was certainly hopeless. 107 husbands were treated and in 22 cases (20.5%) their spouses became pregnant during the period of treatment. The following therapeutic measures proved successful in the females: clomiphene: 34 pregnancies in 82 patients; gonadotrophins (HMG), HCG): 13 pregnancies in 35 patients; 22 out of 66 patients becamse pregnant had been discontinued; treatment of luteal insufficiency with Duphaston resulted in 13 pregnancies among 43 women; tubal surgery led to eight pregnancies in 32 patients and uterine surgery to one pregnancy among five patients. The greatest number of pregnancies was achieved by simple therapeutic measures such as consultation, determination of the optimum time for conception, local treatment, and cervical dilatation.