Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome & Infertility

Diagnosis and Treatment of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Polycystic ovary syndrome is the common endocrinopathy among reproductive-aged females in the all over the world, affecting approximately 6% of female patients. The pathophysiology of the disease is complex and there is no single defect from which it is known to result, it is hypothesized that insulin resistance is a key factors from asymptomatic to having multiple gynecologic, dermatologic, or metabolic manifestations. Advices from the Endocrine Society mentioned using the Rotterdam criteria for diagnosis, which mandate the presence of two of the following three findings—hyperandrogenism, ovulatory dysfunction, and polycystic ovaries and plus the exclusion of other diagnoses that could result in ovulatory dysfunction.