ASRM ABSTRACTS: Male partner DNA damage associated with unexplained infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss

This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, former partner and Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.


In an abstract …

Explaining “Unexplained Infertility”

By I. Lane Wong, M. D., F.A.C.O.G., Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility “Unexplained Infertility” has been described as “a misfortune due to laws of chance or limitations of our knowledge.”  It is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning the diagnosis is made after a standard evaluation of a couple fails to provide an explanation for their infertility.  What constitutes a standard …