Chapter 3 – Consumables for the IVF Laboratory
Abstract Since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, IVF has evolved from a research-based environment to an established and regulated clinical treatment with around 2 million treatment cycles performed…
Chapter 1 – Facilities for Embryo Culture
Abstract Cell culture laboratories in general require facilities with very high standards of hygiene and air quality. Maintaining a Grade-A environment (ISO 4 or above) in these laboratories is usually…
Chapter 36 – Allotransplantation of Human Ovarian Tissue
Abstract The first live birth to occur after ovarian-tissue transplantation between two genetically different sisters was reported in 2011. Since this is an acceptable practice with monozygotic twins, there is…
Chapter 37 – Predicting Ovarian Futures
Abstract The first live birth to occur after ovarian-tissue transplantation between two genetically different sisters was reported in 2011. Since this is an acceptable practice with monozygotic twins, there is…
Chapter 38 – Fertility Preservation
Abstract One of the consequences of cancer therapies, including radiation and chemotherapy, is gonadotoxicity. As effective treatments have rendered a number of malignancies curable, or have delivered long-term survival, post-treatment…
Chapter 40 – Christian Ethics in Fertility Preservation
Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to provide an interpretive framework for examining how Christian theological tenets and convictions might inform an ethical assessment of fertility preservation. In undertaking…
Chapter 35 – Ovarian Allotransplantation
Abstract The transplantation of endocrine organs can be regarded as the oldest form of transplantation in modern medical history. By the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth…
Chapter 39 – Legal Issues of Fertility Preservation
Abstract Fertility preservation is a new subfield of reproductive medicine aimed at preserving the potential for genetic parenthood in adults or children at risk of sterility before undergoing anti-cancer treatments….
Chapter 33 – The Artificial Ovary
Abstract Since the first publications on the artificial ovary, many advances have been made. At that time, no studies had yet proved the feasibility of the concept, so it might…
Chapter 34 – Uterus Transplantation
Abstract Uterus transplantation (UTx) has now repeatedly shown that women with absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) can achieve both genetic and gestational motherhood [1–3]. Along with enabling the woman to…
