Assisted Reproduction Techniques: Challenges and Management Options

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Assisted reproduction techniques have led to the birth of 4 million babies worldwide Assisted reproduction techniques (ART), in particular in-vitro fertilization and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection, are the most advanced forms of infertility treatment. They involve numerous counseling, medical, surgical and laboratory-based steps. At each step various problems and complications could be encountered that challenge even the most experienced ART practitioners. Moreover, patients with complex medical disorders may require ART, presenting further challenges. Assisted Reproduction Techniques will stimulate resourceful thinking in the ART practitioner when faced with these challenges. It outlines various management options, the reasoning behind them, and the evidence on which they are based to enable the practitioner to choose the most suitable solution for the needs of each patient. Written by 122 internationally renowned experts, Assisted Reproduction Techniques follows the patient's journey throughout the whole ART process, with chapters on: Counseling and preparation Ovarian stimulation Oocyte retrieval Embryo transfer The luteal phase The ART laboratory The male patient The ART pregnancy Each of the 100 concise chapters includes clinical cases, background, evidence-based practical management options, preventive measures and key-point summaries of the important details. Assisted Reproduction Techniques gives a wide-ranging practical guide to all those wishing to support couples who cannot conceive naturally.Content: Chapter 1 Risk of Cancer from Ovarian Stimulation (pages 1–6): Nikos Kanakas, Miltiadis Pitsos and Themis MantzavinosChapter 2 Risk of Early Menopause following IVF Treatment (pages 7–8): Sesh Kamal SunkaraChapter 3 The HIV Positive Female (pages 9–12): Joshua U. Klein and Mark V. SauerChapter 4 The HIV Positive Male (pages 13–16): Mark V. Sauer and Joshua U. KleinChapter 5 The Hepatitis B/C Carrier Patient (pages 17–20): Suzanne P. M. Lutgens, I. H. M. Van Loo, E. C. M. Nelissen and G. A. J. DunselmanChapter 6 The Patient with Cystic Fibrosis (pages 21–24): Tarek El?ToukhyChapter 7 The Patient on Medication (pages 25–28): Arri CoomarasamyChapter 8 The Patient with Thrombophilia (pages 29–33): Ying C. Cheong and N. S. MacklonChapter 9 The Patient with Autoimmune Disorders (pages 34–37): Jose BellverChapter 10 The Patient with Malignant Disease: Fertility Preservation (pages 38–42): Arri CoomarasamyChapter 11 The Patient with Heart Disease (pages 43–47): Natasha Thorogood and Catherine Nelson?PiercyChapter 12 The Patient with Diabetes (pages 48–50): Neelam Potdar and Justin C. KonjeChapter 13 The Patient with Thyroid Disease (pages 51–55): Shiao ChanChapter 14 The Patient with Hyperprolactinemia (pages 56–60): John AyukChapter 15 The Patient with Polycystic Ovaries (pages 61–64): Adam H. BalenChapter 16 The Renal Transplant Patient and IVF (pages 65–68): Lynne Robinson and Clara DayChapter 17 The Patient with Previous Pelvic Irradiation (pages 69–72): Vishvanath C. KarandeChapter 18 Fertility after Chemotherapy (pages 73–76): Nivedita ReddyChapter 19 The Patient with Abnormal Cervical Cytology (pages 77–79): Mahmood I. ShafiChapter 20 The Patient with Previous Borderline Ovarian Tumor (pages 80–82): Arri Coomarasamy and Kavita SinghChapter 21 The Patient with an Endometrioma (pages 83–85): Luciano G. Nardo and Oybek RustamovChapter 22 The Patient with Cervical Stenosis (pages 86–89): Khaldoun SharifChapter 23 Vaccination and ART (pages 90–94): Arri Coomarasamy and Dukaydah van der BergChapter 24 The Patient with Hydrosalpinx (pages 95–98): Annika StrandellChapter 25 The Patient with Poor Ovarian Reserve (pages 99–104): Scott M. NelsonChapter 26 The Patient with Congenital Uterine Anomalies (pages 105–108): Sarah Creighton and Lina MichalaChapter 27 The Patient with Congenital Cervico?Vaginal Anomalies (pages 109–111): Sarah Creighton and Lina MichalaChapter 28 The Patient with Uterine Fibroids (pages 112–114): Haitham Hamoda and Yakoub KhalafChapter 29 The Patient with Previous Essure® Sterilization (pages 115–118): T. Justin ClarkChapter 30 The Patient with Previous Endometrial Ablation (pages 119–123): T. Justin ClarkChapter 31 The Couple with Recurrent Implantation Failure (pages 124–127): Tarek El?ToukhyChapter 32 The Patient with Previous Uterine Artery Embolization (pages 128–130): Haitham Hamoda and Yakoub KhalafChapter 33 Endometrial Polyp Detected during ART Treatment (pages 131–134): Arri CoomarasamyChapter 34 The Obese Patient (pages 135–138): Mostafa Metwally and Bolarinde OlaChapter 35 Asherman Syndrome (pages 139–141): Dan Yu, Enlan Xia and T. C. LiChapter 36 The Older Patient (pages 142–145): William LedgerChapter 37 Requests for Mild or Natural Cycle IVF Treatment (pages 146–149): Brad B. Swelstad and Suheil J. MuasherChapter 38 The ART Patient with Psychosexual Problems (pages 150–152): Sue ElkinChapter 39 The Patient Needing Third?Party Reproduction (pages 153–158): Madhurima RajkhowaChapter 40 Request for “Social Egg Freezing” (pages 159–164): Valerie L. Peddie and Siladitya BhattacharyaChapter 41 The Patient with Bariatric Surgery (pages 165–168): Zaher O. Merhi and Harry J. LiemanChapter 42 Poor Response during Ovarian Stimulation (pages 169–174): Lynne Robinson and Arri CoomarasamyChapter 43 Ovarian Stimulation for IVF in a Patient with Previous Severe Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (pages 175–177): Khaldoun SharifChapter 44 Unable to Achieve Pituitary Down?Regulation (pages 178–183): K. Jayaprakasan and Nick Raine?FenningChapter 45 The Patient Discovered Pregnant during Pituitary Down?Regulation (pages 184–187): Mohammed Khairy Mahmoud and Arri CoomarasamyChapter 46 Ovarian Cysts following Pituitary Down?Regulation (pages 188–191): Alison TaylorChapter 47 Poor Endometrial Development (pages 192–200): Lynne Robinson and Arri CoomarasamyChapter 48 Missed IVF Medications (pages 201–204): Lynne Robinson and Arri CoomarasamyChapter 49 The Patient with a History of Estrogen?Receptor Positive Cancer (pages 205–207): Murat Sonmezer and Kutluk OktayChapter 50 The Patient Over?Responding to Controlled Ovarian Stimulation during IVF (pages 208–212): Khaldoun SharifChapter 51 General Anesthesia or Sedation for Oocyte Retrieval? (pages 213–218): Andrew F. MalinsChapter 52 Delayed Oocyte Retrieval (pages 219–222): Khaldoun SharifChapter 53 Empty Follicle Syndrome (pages 223–226): George NdukweChapter 54 Bleeding following Oocyte Retrieval (pages 227–231): Annika K. Ludwig and Barbara SonntagChapter 55 To Flush or not to Flush Follicles at Oocyte Retrieval? (pages 232–235): Micah J. Hill and Eric D. LevensChapter 56 Inaccessible Ovaries at Oocyte Retrieval (pages 236–238): Hazem Al?RumaihChapter 57 Endometriotic Cysts at Oocyte Retrieval (pages 239–242): Graciela Kohls and Juan A. Garc?ya?VelascoChapter 58 Couple Splitting While Embryos are in Storage (pages 243–248): Masoud AfnanChapter 59 Endometrial Cavity Fluid Identified during IVF Treatment (pages 249–251): Arri CoomarasamyChapter 60 Difficult Embryo Transfer (pages 252–256): Khaldoun SharifChapter 61 Excessive Cervical Mucus and Retained Embryo at Embryo Transfer (pages 257–260): Hassan N. Sallam, Ahmed F. Galal and Fady S. MoeityChapter 62 Life after Embryo Transfer (pages 261–264): Kelton TremellenChapter 63 Vaginal Bleeding in the Luteal Phase after IVF (pages 265–270): Carol Coughlan and Bolarinde OlaChapter 64 Pelvic Infection after IVF (pages 271–273): Muhammad Faisal AslamChapter 65 The Patient Presenting with Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (pages 274–278): Khaldoun SharifChapter 66 Adnexal Torsion after IVF (pages 279–282): Saioa Torrealday and Beth W. RackowChapter 67 Exposure to Infection in the Luteal Phase of IVF (pages 283–288): Litha Pepas and Arri CoomarasamyChapter 68 Total Failure of Fertilization after Conventional IVF ? Rescue ICSI (pages 289–295): A. Albert YuzpeChapter 69 Couples not Wishing to Create Surplus Embryos in IVF (pages 296–299): Hossam MohamedChapter 70 Aneuploidy Screening for Advanced Maternal Age or Repeated IVF Failure (pages 300–303): Haitham Hamoda and Yacoub KhalafChapter 71 Choosing an Embryo for Transfer (pages 304–307): Denny SakkasChapter 72 Globozoospermia (pages 308–312): Steven Mansell, Anne Rice, Catherine Beaton and Christopher L. R. BarrattChapter 73 Total Failure of Fertilization after ICSI (pages 313–316): Kaoru YanagidaChapter 74 Refreezing of Embryos (pages 317–319): Jerome H. CheckChapter 75 Infection in Embryo Culture Medium (pages 320–323): Peter M. M. KastropChapter 76 ICSI or IVF in Nonmale?Factor Infertility? (pages 324–327): Mohamed AboulgharChapter 77 The ART Program during a Natural or Human?Made Disaster (pages 328–330): Richard P. Dickey and Carla WhiteChapter 78 Using the Wrong Sperm or Embryos in IVF (pages 331–334): Khaldoun Sharif and Mutaz Al?AhmadChapter 79 Unexpected Inability to Produce a Semen Sample on the Day of Oocyte Retrieval (pages 335–339): Khaldoun SharifChapter 80 The Azoospermic Patient (pages 340–343): Khaldoun SharifChapter 81 ART in Men with Klinefelter Syndrome (pages 344–348): Ronnie G. Fine and Darius A. PaduchChapter 82 ART in Men with 100% Immotile Sperm (pages 349–352): Carolina Ortega?Hrepich, Dominique Raick and Herman TournayeChapter 83 Request for Posthumous Fatherhood with Perimortem Surgical Sperm Retrieval (pages 353–359): Zamip P. Patel, Heather E. Ross and Lawrence S. RossChapter 84 Retrograde Ejaculation and Anejaculation (pages 360–363): Asif Muneer and Anthony HirshChapter 85 Sperm Retrieval in Cancerous Testes (pages 364–366): Saad Aldousari and Armand ZiniChapter 86 Leukocytospermia and ART (pages 367–370): Giuseppe RicciChapter 87 The Infertile Male Patient with a Genetic Cause (pages 371–375): Katherine L. O'Flynn O'Brien and Ashok AgarwalChapter 88 Y Chromosome Microdeletions and ART (pages 376–379): Sherman J. SilberChapter 89 Unexpected Number or Gender of Babies after IVF (pages 381–386): Khaldoun SharifChapter 90 Suspected Ectopic Pregnancy after IVF (pages 387–390): Vishvanath C. KarandeChapter 91 Cervical Ectopic Pregnancy after IVF (pages 391–395): Usha VermaChapter 92 Heterotopic Pregnancy after IVF (pages 396–399): Abdel?Maguid RamzyChapter 93 Multi?fetal Pregnancy Reduction after ART (pages 400–404): R. Katie Morris and Mark D. KilbyChapter 94 Multiple Pregnancy after IVF: To Cerclage or not to Cerclage? (pages 405–408): Harold GeeChapter 95 Hyperreactio Luteinalis after IVF (pages 409–411): Mohammad Ebrahim Parsanezhad, Leila Forooghinia and Maryam Parsa?NezhadChapter 96 Lactation by a Commissioning Mother in Surrogacy (pages 412–414): Frank P. Biervliet and Stephen L. AtkinChapter 97 Dealing with the Emotional Distress following Failed IVF (pages 415–420): Linda Hammer BurnsChapter 98 IVF When the Prognosis is very Poor or Futile (pages 421–424): Khaldoun SharifChapter 99 Unexpected drop in the ART clinic pregnancy rate (pages 425–429): Bulent Urman and Kayhan YakinChapter 100 Natural Fertility after IVF (pages 430–432): Frank Nawroth and Annika K. Ludwig