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Concern

  Evaluating Your Fertility
  Understanding Fertility
  Maximise Your Fertility
  Infertility: An Introduction
  Infertility in Females
  Impact of Age
  Ovulatory
  Classification of Disorders
  Clinical Features of Disorders
  Possible Causes of Disorders
  Lack of Ovulation
  Irregular Ovulation
  Polycystic Ovary Disease
  Inadequate Luteal Phase
  Prolactin Disorders
  Anatomical
  Chromosomal Disorders
  Other Causes (Idiopathic)
  Infertility in Males
  Implications of Infertility
  Questions to Ask Your Doctor
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Possible underlying causes of Ovulatory Disorders

  • Systemic disorders:
    • Thyroid abnormalities
    • Hyperprolactinaemia (abnormally elevated prolactin levels) 
  • Hypothalamic disorders:
    • Tumours
    • Abnormalities of feedback due to:
      • Stress
      • Weight loss
      • Cushing's syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia
      • Ovarian or adrenal tumours 
  • Pituitary disorders:
    • Tumours
    • Abnormalities of feedback due to:
      • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
      • Weight loss
      • Infection (sarcoidosis) 
  • Ovarian disorders:
    • Failure:
      • Genetic
      • Infectious
      • Surgical
      • Immunological    
    • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
    • Tumours    


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