Introduction According to the American Cancer Society, as of January 1, 2019, there were 3,861,520 women living with breast cancer; 807,860 women living with uterine cancer; 283,120 women living with…
Abstract It is 40 years since the birth of the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). From then on, remarkable progress has been made in the management of…
Abstract Despite the various advances and increasing success rates of assisted conception treatment in recent years, implantation continues to be a rate limiting step (). The first successful IVF treatment…
Abstract Human reproduction is an inefficient process. Still today is no clear definition for recurrent implantation failure (RIF). It is a condition arising from the failure of a successive number…
Abstract Despite the various advances and the increasing success rates of assisted conception treatment, implantation continues to be a rate limiting step. For implantation to occur a blastocyst must attach…
Abstract Because studies of older and, otherwise, unfavorable patients going through in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments with own (autologous) oocytes are sparse, we here present to a large degree the…
Abstract Despite the notion that the first baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978 following IVF performed in a natural menstrual cycle, ovarian stimulation became the golden standard of care…
Abstract The main aim of preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), which up until recently was known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), is the identification of embryos that are free of inherited…
Abstract The history of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET) goes back to the early 1890s when Walter Heape, a professor and physician at the University of Cambridge,…
Abstract Approximately 8–15 percent of couples are unable to conceive after 1 year of unprotected intercourse, and they are thereby considered infertile; this problem has become a global health concern,…
