I have described in several other articles what luteal phase is, for this reason I am not going to repeat this again, you may read it on the link above.
In this short article I am going to describe luteal phase defect or LPD, which is also one of the considerable causes of infertility.
Luteal phase defect can impact your fertility by inability to conceive or by having problems to maintain pregnancy or causing an early miscarriage.
It is considered that woman suffers from luteal phase defect if her luteal phase is shorter than 10 days or if she is unable to produce enough progesterone during the luteal phase even though luteal phase itself is long enough. Luteal phase defect is also defined in cases when endometrium does not respond appropriately to the progesterone stimulation therefore causing endometrial lining not being ready for implantation, which is the main reason women have problems conceiving. (more…)
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