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Infertility

What is Infertility?

Infertility is a medical condition that affects 15-20% of married couples in the United States. Far from being a medical condition alone, the inability to become pregnant has a profound influence on a couple's emotional, psychological, and even physical well being. Infertility can cause undue stress on a marriage, many times resulting in spouses growing further apart rather than closer together.

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Services

The Wildermuth Reproductive Treatment Center at Sisters Hospital in Buffalo provides support and services to couples who want to maximize their fertility without resorting to artificial reproductive technologies.

Only diagnostic and treatment techniques that are in accordance with the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care are performed at the Center. The Center relies on natural family planning as an important adjunct to maximizing the couple's fertility.

Consultation: Including a review of the couple's history and complete female physical, if indicated.

Diagnostic Evaluation: Including hormonal studies, Hysterosalpingography, Ultrasound follicle series, Semen analysis, and Laparascopy.

Treatment based on the underlying condition causing infertility, including:

  • Ovulation induction
  • Microsconservative surgery for endometriosis and adhesions
  • Tubal ligation reversal
  • Hysteroscopic cannulation of the fallopian tubes
  • Hysteroscopic removal of uterine septum and scar tissue
  • Myomectomy
  • Enhancement of cervical mucus

Education: Utilizing natural family planning, the couple will learn the natural signs of fertility awareness to help in diagnosis and treatment.

Support Services: A couples' support group and spiritual counseling is offered to help the couple cope with infertility.

Financial Assistance: A limited amount of funds will be available to those couples unable to afford certain diagnostic or treatment options.

Additional services at the Center include breast care, endocrinology, perinatal medicine, obstetric medicine, urogynecology, post-reproductive gynecology, and gynecological oncology.

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More Information

For more information about Catholic Health’s infertility services, please call HealthConnection at (716) 447-6205, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday - Friday.