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Your Current and Future Fertility: AMH and Egg Freezing
Haven’t met the right partner, or not ready to have a baby on your own? Focused on your career right now? Just not ready to be a mom? Perfectly understandable. But if baby-making is on your future...
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Ovarian Reserve
By Dr. Daniel KortA blog by Dr. Daniel Kort, Damien Fertility Partners, November 17, 2014Measuring the quantity and quality of eggs is one of the most challenging aspects of fertility care. While many...
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Test
What it FSH? What is High FSH? FSH is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland. FSH causes follicles - the sacs in your ovaries that contain eggs - to grow. FSH is the primary hormone responsible for...
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Understanding Your Test Results: Assessing Female Infertility
By Neway FertilityA blog by Neway Fertility, December 2, 2014With approximately 10% of couples in the United States affected by infertility, understanding underlying health problems that may contribute...
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Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) Fertility Test
The AMH test (Anti-Mullerian Hormone) is a blood test to help the fertility doctor assess the woman's ovarian reserve. The test measures the levels of AMH in a woman's blood and is helpful in...
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Fertility Treatment Begins
By Jane NewmanA blog by Jane Newman, December 24, 2014Infertility was all new to me. I had to become educated in an area I knew and understood little about. Looking back I feel almost foolish and naïve...
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What’s the Deal with AMH?
By Dr. Daniel KortA blog by Dr. Daniel Kort, Damien Fertility Partners, January 7, 2015 AMH is an important test that gives me a lot of good information about a woman’s ovarian function. It's important...
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Surgical Tests: Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy
If blood tests and other diagnostic tests do not determine the cause of your infertility, your health care professional may suggest one or two surgical tests to try to diagnose or treat the problem....
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Why Ovarian Reserve Testing Is Misleading
By RMA of Central Pennsylvania at PinnaclehealthA blog by Kara Nguyen, MD, MPH, RMA of Central Pennsylvania at PinnacleHealth, August 5, 2015 There is no one perfect test for ovarian reserve. There is...
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Why is it Important for the Male Partner to Have a Fertility Evaluation?
Dr. Natan Bar-Chama of RMA New York discusses the importance of males having a fertility work up. It is now known that when a couple has infertility problems, up to 30% is due to male factor...
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What Tests Are Included in The Fertility Workup?
Dr. Anate Brauer from Greenwich Fertility Center discusses what tests are involved in the fertility workup. The fertility workup checks your ovaries and eggs as well as your uterus and tubes. It is...
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Infertility Causes
Dr. Tina Koopersmith from West Coast Women's Reproductive Center discusses the causes of infertility. It has been found that women are not solely to blame for infertility as 40% due to a male factor...
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Dr. Brad Miller, a fertility doctor and founder of RMA Michigan, explains the tests that are involved during a fertility consultation.Subjects: Fertility TestsRegional Microsites: Chicago, ILMedia: Ask...
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Estradiol Levels
Estradiol is a type of estrogen, the major sex hormone in women. It is secreted by the ovarian follicles. As the follicles grow and develop each month, they produce estradiol. This sets the rest of the...
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Genetic Testing for Inheritable Diseases, Recurrent Miscarriages
All healthy humans are born with 46 chromosomes that are part of every cell in the body. Chromosomes are divided into 22 matching pairs and one pair of sex chromosomes. These cell structures each carry...
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