Infertility curable with modern medicine – Medical expert

A medical expert, Dr Robinson Ugwuanyi, says the challenge of infertility in married couples is not a death sentence but could be treated with the presence of modern medicine tools.

In an interview on Friday, Ugwuanyi gave the assurance that infertility is curable once it is followed up medically.

He stressed that infertility occurs in a couple if they are unable to achieve pregnancy after one year of regular and unprotected sexual exposure at least 3 times a week.

He rolled out some medical terms like fecundability, the probability of conception in a month or in a menstrual cycle, which varies across and within age groups for both women and men.

The monthly probability of conception is at most 0.15–0.25 among newlyweds and this declines with increasing age and duration of marriage. It is this low because fertilisation can occur only for about two days around the time of ovulation in the middle of the menstrual cycle.

He further said pregnancy rates vary per age revealing that women under 30 years have a 70-75 per cent chance, Women 35-35 60 percent while Women aged 36 years and above have a 50 per cent chance.

He further said that motivated couples that comply with therapeutic guidelines can expect a 50 to 60 percent chance of conception.

Ugwuanyi said that infertility can be primary or secondary and described primary infertility as a subunit of infertility in which the woman has never been pregnant while secondary infertility is a subset in which the woman has previously been pregnant irrespective of the outcome.