[Epimestrol in childless marriages (author's transl)].

In a gynaecological practice 49 patients were treated for primary or secondary infertility with epimestrol between January 1977 and June 1979. The selected group all had normogonadotropic, normoprolactinaemic anovulatory cycles (group II of the WHO scientific group 1976). Therapeutic measures extended over a total of 176 cycles in which 5 mg epimestrol (1 tablet Stimovul) were prescribed from the 5th to the 14th day. This procedure led to at least one ovulation in 86% of the cases and to pregnancy in 30 of the women. 23 pregnancies were without major complications. The abortion rate was 23%. Side effects of epimestrol treatment were only seen in occasional cases and only at the beginning of treatment.