TY  - JOUR
T1  - A CASE REPORT: A MOTHER WITH SECONDARY INFERTILITY
AU  - Göztepe, Aslı
AU  - Güldağ, Mahmut Alper
AU  - Elter, Koray
PY  - 2018
DA  - October
JF  - Turkish Medical Student Journal
JO  - TMSJ
PB  - Trakya University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-4724
SP  - 76
EP  - 78
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
LA  - en
AB  - Aims: Secondary infertility is a disease where women with a firstborn are not able to have a child again. In this casereport, we wanted to observe a whole process of a patient with secondary infertility and investigate the causes andwhether there are any solutions for it.Case Report:A 41-year-old female patient presented to the clinic with the complaint of not being able to get pregnant.First thoughts about the patient were focused on infertility however, she had a child before. Therefore, furtherinvestigations were needed. After the investigations, she was diagnosed with secondary infertility because no rationalreasons were able to clarify her disease.Conclusion: Nowadays, secondary infertility is still a major health problem and no medications or treatments areenough to resolve this problem. The most common theory is the H-Y antigen hypothesis, but still, there is not enoughevidence for this theory to be proven.
KW  - Infertility
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - immune system
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tmsj/issue//481902
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/572433
ER  -