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INFERTILITY

Infertility is when a couple of reproductive age is unable to conceive after a year or more of regular unprotected intercourse.

It can be primary if no pregnancy has ever occurred or secondary if pregnancy has occurred irrespective of the outcome.

Ovulation induction is part of the patient's management which aims to achieve development of a single follicle and subsequent ovulation in a woman with anovulation.

Drug Information

Indication: Inhibition of physiological lactation soon after parturition; suppression of established lactation. Hyperprola...

Indication: Anovulation including polycystic ovarian syndrome in women unresponsive to treatment w/ clomifene citrate. Sti...

Indication: Women undergoing superovulation prior to assisted reproductive techniques (ART) & anovulatory or oligo-ovu...

Pergoveris
follitrophin alpha + lutropin alfa

Indication: Stimulation of follicular development in women w/ severe LH & FSH deficiency (endogenous serum LH level &l...

Indication: Management of prostate cancer, breast cancer in premenopausal & perimenopausal women suitable for hormonal...

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