CLOMIPHENE

Course overview

CLOMIPHENE IS A MEDICATION USED IN THE MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF ANOVULATORY OR OLIGO-OVULATORY INFERTILITY TO INDUCE OVULATION FOR PATIENTS DESIRING TO CONCEIVE. THE PATIENTS LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM CLOMIPHENE CITRATE ARE PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME (PCOS) AND OTHER CAUSES OF INFERTILITY SUCH AS POST-ORAL-CONTRACEPTIVE AMENORRHEA, AMENORRHEA-GALACTORRHEA SYNDROME, PSYCHOGENIC AMENORRHEA AS WELL AS SOME CASES OF SECONDARY AMENORRHEA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL HIGHLIGHT THE INDICATIONS, MECHANISM OF ACTION, ADMINISTRATION, ADVERSE EFFECT, CONTRAINDICATIONS, AND OTHER KEY ELEMENTS OF CLOMIPHENE THERAPY IN THE CLINICAL SETTING PERTINENT FOR MEMBERS OF AN INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAM IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH INFERTILITY AND ITS RELATED CONDITIONS.