FERTILITY FOLLOWING POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is the most common endocrine abnormality affecting women in their reproductive years [1]. The prevalence of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in asymptomatic women is thought to be between 16 and 33 percent [2]. However the percentage of women who have clinical manifestations in the presence of morphological polycystic ovaries is as high as 90%. The diagnostic criteria for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome should include evidence of hyperandrogenism in the absence of non classical adrenal hyperplasia, ovulatory dysfunction and morphological polycystic ovaries. The women who have two out of these three criteria are said to have this disorder [3].