Background: Advances in medical technology have had major impacts on human reproduction. The development of effective contraceptive methods has reduced unwanted fertility, and the development of a variety of drugs and procedures has, for the first time, permitted women with fertility problems to reasonably expect that they can fulfill their desires to have children. So, The aim of this review a...

Assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as donor-assisted insemination (DI) relying on anonymous sperm donors, has been available since the 1940s, and it is assumed that tens of thousands of children throughout the world have been born through these procedures. Although anonymous DI has been occurring in Japan since the late 1940s, the use of egg donation has been a more recent development...

objective: to verify the hypothesis that the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities increases in babies conceived by different assisted reproduction procedures. the availability of the umbilical cord blood encouraged us to study this hypothesis via this method. materials and methods: this is a descriptive study, umbilical cord blood samples of assisted reproductive technology (art) children wer...

background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...

background: the purpose of this prospective randomized study was to compare ovarian response as well as oocytes embryo yields and pregnancy rates in women who underwent ovulation induction for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) with recombinant human fsh (rfsh) alone or in combination with human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg). materials and methods: out of 300 patients in assisted reproduct...

background: fatty acids are known to be critically important in multiple biological functions. phospholipid fatty acids of follicular fluid, an important microenvironment for the development of oocytes, may contribute to the women’s fertility and the efficacy of assisted reproduction techniques. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fatty acid composition of follicular fluid ph...

background: in recent years, the high likelihood of the implantation of transferred embryos has led to an increase in the number of multiple pregnancies and consequently an increased risk of complications in fetuses and mothers. since the aim of infertility treatment is the birth of a healthy child while preserving the mother’s health, therefore, attempts should be made to avoid multiple pregna...

OBJECTIVE To explore the drug treatment for temporary ejaculation failure in couple undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (ART). DESIGN Case report. SETTING Andrology unit, center for reproductive medicine. PATIENT (S) Five patients suffering from temporary ejaculation failure during ART. INTERVENTION(S) Assisted reproductive technology. Semen samples were collected by masturbat...

Received: 15 Sep 2012, Accepted: 21 Jan 2013 * Corresponding Address: P.O. Box: 16635-148, Department of Reproductive Imaging at Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] Royan Institute International Journal of Fertility and Sterility Vol 7, No 3, Oct-Dec 2013, Pages: 243-244. Recent advances i...