ANOVULATORY INFERTILITY: A SINGLE DOSE OF 5000 TO 10 000 UNITS OF CHORIONIC GONADOTROPHIN IS GIVEN BY INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION TO MIMIC THE MIDCYCLE PEAK OF LUTEINISING HORMONE WHICH NORMALLY STIMULATES OVULATION. UP TO 3 REPEAT INJECTIONS OF UP TO 5000 UNITS EACH MAY BE GIVEN WITHIN THE NEXT 9 DAYS TO PREVENT INSUFFICIENCY OF THE CORPUS LUTEUM. CHORIONIC GONADOTROPHIN IS ALSO GIVEN WITH MENOTROPHIN AS AN ADJUNCT TO IVF PROCEDURES AND OTHER ASSISTED CONCEPTION TECHNIQUES INVOLVING SUPEROVULATION AND OOCYTE COLLECTION.
HABITUAL ABORTION : 10,000 I.U. AS SOON AS PREGNANCY IS DETECTED, FOLLOWED BY 5,000 I.U. AFTER A WEEK & THEN 5000 UNITS TWICE A WEEK TILL 12 WEEKS. THEN 2000 UNITS ONCE A WEEK TILL 16 WEEKS.
THREATENED ABORTION : 5,000 UNITS AS SOON AS THE PATIENT COMES WITH BLEEDING/SYMPTOMS, FOLLOWED BY TWICE A DAY TILL BLEEDING STOPS. THEN 2000 UNITS ONCE A WEEK FOR 3 WEEKS.
LUTEAL PHASE DEFECT: 2000 UNITS ON DAY 3, DAY 6 AND DAY 9 AFTER OVULATION.
MALE : HYPOGONADOTROPHIC HYPOGONADISM : 400 - 4000 I.U. THRICE WEEKLY. A DRUG LIKE MENOTROPHIN WITH FOLLICLE STIMULATING ACTIVITY IS OFTEN ADDED TO ENABLE NORMAL SPERMATOGENESIS
CRYPTORCHIDISM : 500 - 4,000 I.U. ON ALTERNATE DAYS. TT SHOULD CONTINUE FOR 1-2 MTHS AFTER TESTES DESEND
OLIGO-ASTHENOSPERMIA AND AZOOSPERMIA. 500 I.U. EVERY DAY OR 2,500 I.U. EVERY 5TH DAYS.
DELAYED PUBERTY: 500 - 1500 UNITS IS GIVEN IM TWICE WEEKLY. THE DOSE IS TITRATED AGAINST SERUM TESTOSTERONE LEVELS.