Doctor Steinleitner offers services ranging from basic infertility testing and diagnosis to advanced IVF care. He specializes in treating patients with difficult infertility problems who have not responded to treatment in the gynecologist’s office. He treats a wide variety of problems, including:
• Difficulties in conceiving from failure to ovulate
• Diagnosis of unexplained infertility
• Blocked or damaged fallopian tubes
• Endometriosis
• Infertility following tubal ligation or vasectomy
• Male infertility
• Infertility in women over the age of 40
• Care of women with repeated miscarriage
The full range of basic and advanced reproductive therapies are available:
• Intrauterine insemination (also known as “IUI” or “artificial insemination”)
• Treatment with oral and injectable fertility medications
• Ultrasound timing of ovulation
• In vitro fertilization (IVF)
• Intracytoplasmic sperm insertion (ICSI)
• Egg donation
• Sperm donation
• Gestational surrogacy (“surrogate mothers”)
• Immune therapies for infertility and repeated miscarriage
• Hormonal therapies for endometriosis
• Gender selection
Diagnostic testing
Specialized, sophisticated testing can pinpoint the case or causes for each aspect of infertility - egg health, hormonal factors, sperm function and the condition of the fallopian tubes and the uterus. Specific tests include:
• Testing for a woman’s egg health and fertility potential (“biological clock”):
• Clomiphene challenge test
• Antimullerian hormone and inhibin B
• Primordial follicle counting by ultrasound
• Advanced sperm function testing
• Sperm chromatin structural assay (SCSA)
• Kruger’s strict morphologic assessment
• Assessment of the health of the fallopian tubes
• Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
• Chlamydia antibody titer
• Testing for uterine health and receptivity to pregnancy
• Pelvic ultrasound
• Endometrial biopsy for integrin expression
• Sonohysterogram
• Diagnosis of immunological infertility
• Endocrine assessment
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