How Is Unexplained Infertility Treated?

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0:00:00.000,0:00:02.000 (Text on screen): Fertility Authority: Your Most Trusted Source 0:00:02.000,0:00:05.000 Ask the Experts 0:00:05.000,0:00:10.000 How is unexplained infertility treated? 0:00:10.000,0:00:14.000 Dr. Laurence Jacobs, Fertility Centers of Illinois: Numerous studies have shown that by far and away the best treatment 0:00:14.000,0:00:19.000 for unexplained infertility is doing IVF: in vitro fertilization. 0:00:19.000,0:00:24.000 Simply because it's the only method we have where we can look at the egg quality, 0:00:24.000,0:00:30.000 we can look at not only picking out the best sperm, but if necessary place the sperm into the eggs 0:00:30.000,0:00:36.000 by doing ICSI, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection, so we bypass any concerns about fertilization. 0:00:36.000,0:00:38.000 And, thirdly, we're not using the fallopian tubes. 0:00:38.000,0:00:45.000 So, by being able to make healthy embryos and put in one of two embryos, we get very good pregnancy rates. 0:00:45.000,0:00:52.000 The problem is that many couples either cannot afford IVF or they don't want to start with IVF, 0:00:52.000,0:00:59.000 so we'll do medicated cycles with ovulation induction and we'll do IUI or intra uterine insemination, 0:00:59.000,0:01:04.000 even though it's not nearly as successful as IVF, it's easier to do and it's less costly, 0:01:04.000,0:01:12.000 so there's nothing wrong with starting with that type of therapy, as long as you're limiting it to no more than, say, three or four cycles. 0:01:12.000,0:01:15.000 (Text on screen): Fertility Authority: Your Most Trusted Source