ABSTRACT
About 15% of all couples experience infertility at some time during their reproductive lives. Increasingly, infertility can be treated by the use of assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete intra-fallopian transfer, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Gonadotropin treatment to increase the number of oocytes is a common element of these programs. A major cause for female infertility is chronic anovulation. Patients suffering from this condition are also treated with gonadotropins with the aim to achieve monofollicular development.
