Economic perspective of evaluating fertility treatment in obese and overweight infertile women.

Objectives: To evaluate direct cost of in-vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) cycle and reproductive outcomes among infertile women with different body mass index (BMI).

Methods: A retrospective study of 826 subfertility patients who had IVF or IVF-ICSI in 2017 to 2018 were reviewed. The patients were divided into 4 groups bestowing to BMI to normal weight (18.

Screening of hepatitis B and C and human immunodeficiency virus in infertile couples in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a group of infertile couples attending a tertiary care facility in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional observational study was performed by reviewing medical records of 500 couples referred to the Reproductive Endocrine and Infertility Medicine Department of the Women's Specialized Hospital at King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between January 2006 and December 2008. All patients were screened for HBV markers (hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis B surface antibody, hepatitis B core antibody, hepatitis Be antigen), anti-HCV, anti-HIV types I and II using enzyme linked immunoassay technique.

Beliefs of subfertile Saudi women.

Objective: To assess the beliefs of infertile Saudi women and acquire information on alternative medicine usage by infertility patients.

Methods: Between February 2008 and January 2009 a cross-sectional survey was performed in a tertiary hospital. Fifty-one patients attending the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Medicine Department, Women's Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were interviewed at random.

Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome with hyperprolactinemia.

Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome in association with hyperprolactinemia is very rare. An 18-year-old, Saudi, single, virgin female was accompanied by her mother seeking medical advice regarding absent menses. She had normal breasts, normal axillary and pubic hair, normal vulva, urethra, and labial folds, however, the vagina was blind, approximately 2 cm length.