Chapter 8 – Individualized Embryo Selection
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…
Chapter 9 – Preparation for Optimal Endometrial Receptivity in Cryo Cycles
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…
Chapter 10 – Individualized Immunological Testing in Recurrent Implantation Failure
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…
Chapter 11 – Individualized Embryo Transfer
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…
Chapter 2 – Individualized Ovarian Stimulation in Patients with Advanced Maternal Age and Premature Ovarian Aging
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…
Chapter 1 – Individualized Ovarian Stimulation for Normal and High Responders
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…
Chapter 7 – Individualized Genetic Testing
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…
Chapter 6 – Individualized Fertilization Technique in the IVF Laboratory
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,…
Chapter 5 – Individualized Management of Male Infertility
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,…
Chapter 4 – Individualized Luteal Phase Support
Abstract In ovarian stimulation cycles for IVF/ICSI, a defective luteal phase occurs in almost all patients as a result of the multifollicular development and supraphysiological hormonal levels, which inhibit the…
