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JAMA. 1970;211(5):820.

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Despite the current clamor for birth control, sterility has failed to capture the imagination or to gladden the heart. No artist to date has been inspired to design a sterility symbol, no primitive tribesman to create a sterility dance. And to a child-craving mother, sterility always has been an unmitigated heartbreak—an affliction for which until recently medicine had little to offer.

Hormonal treatment of infertility brought new hope to the sterile woman. Using human menopausal gonadotropin and human chorionic gonadotropin, Lunenfeld and associates¹ in 1962 successfully induced ovulation leading to pregnancy and childbirth in a previously anovulatory woman. Since that time other investigators have reported similar successes in inducing ovulation with subsequent conception. Fertility, thus, proved to be attainable —but at a price. Ovarian hyperstimulation, characterized by an abnormal excretion with consequent disturbances in blood volume, viscosity, and coagulability, occurred in a minority of the pregnant women, and—more importantly—an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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