Pattern of request for female fertility hormonal assay in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) Irrua, Edo State. Nigeria: One year retrospective study.

Requests for infertility work up are often received in the chemical pathology laboratory. These are sent in from various consultants in the hospital and even from private clinics. There is ever increasing need to assist the infertile or sub fertile couples to achieve pregnancy or sexual satisfaction. We set out to find out which gender is being investigated more in this environment and from where do the requests come. A retrospective study of the master log book in the chemical laboratory was done for a period of one year (January December 2014). The result shows that only 6% of males compared with 94% of females are being investigated in our laboratory. The excel software was used in the analysis of result. Females are being selectively investigated but in our opinion, this should stop and both partners should be investigated together to achieve better result.