Reproductive Medicine from Childhood to Adulthood

Overview

Modern era brought new diagnostic and therapeutic methods to endocrinology and changed the approach to manydiseases and developmental disorders. Explosion of new findings brought about the possibility of examinations onsubcellular level. Possibility to study structure and function of various genes is not any more the futurology. However,still in medicine romain a roas which are considered as less important. It is usually assumed that questions of fertilitywill be dealt by the specialist for adults. We suppose that the given problems should be well advised by aninterdisciplinary co-operating team in the paediatric patients already. However, it should be recognised that somereproduction disorders have their origin in the early age. The aim of this paper is to give an overview on endocrinedisorders in relation to reproduction impairments and to outline possibilities of co-operation between differentspecialist treating patients from childhood trough adulthood.

Key words:
reproductive potential, fertility, children, adolescents, adults.