For many years, the management of male-factor infertility has been empirical rather than evidence-based. In current clinical practice, assisted reproductive techniques are the most successful methods of alleviating male-factor infertility. To date, it remains unclear what adjuvant actions can be taken to improve the outcome of assisted reproductive techniques for male-factor infertility. Eviden...

objective: nowadays, many infertile couples can have child by assistant reproductive technology (art). always the undesirable effects of these methods on newborn are considered and are evaluated. the aim of this study is to describe the impact of art on ocular and visual performances of infants born by these methods. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 479 infants age...

objective: to determine the pattern of breastfeeding in infants who conceived by assisted reproductive techniques (art). materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 312 infants were selected by the non-random consecutive method from art infants who referred by royan institute to child health research department. infants were born between septembers 2007and september 2009 in tehran. infan...

Background: Animal and in vitro studies have shown that 25-OH vitamin D plays a significant role in different parts of body. Few data exist about the role of 25- OH vitamin D in reproduction. Insufficient levels during pregnancy are potentially associated with increased risk of preeclampsia, insulin resistance and gestational diabetes mellitus. Recently, few studies have assessed the prognostic...

Background: Infertility as a crisis in the life of infertile couples led to difficulty in accepting and using treatment. This review aims at studying the forms of complementary medicine and its impact on infertile. Materials and Methods: Study overview, the present internet search at time scales from 1999 to 2013 databases iranian and international iranmedex, EMBASE, Uptodate, Scopus, Science- ...

cumulative embryo score (ces) is one of the many embryo scoring methods which have been developed to help clinicians to transfer high quality embryos and predict pregnancy rate in assisted reproductive techniques (art) cycles. regarding the existing difference in ces calculation this study was done to compare two methods in order to determine the more practical and preferable one. in a retrospe...

fertilization involves direct interaction of the sperm and oocyte, fusion of the cell membranes and :union: of male and female gamete genomes. the completion of this process and subsequent embryo development depend in part on the inherent integrity of the sperm dna. sperm genome quality has been emphasized for several years as playing a major role in early embryogenesis. there is clinical evide...

Heterotopic pregnancy (HP) is the simultaneous occurrence of intra- and extrauterine pregnancies. It is a rare event in spontaneous pregnancies with an incidence of less than 1:15000 however the frequency has increased to 1% in accordance with the widespread use of assisted reproductive techniques (ART). The pre-operative diagnosis of this condition is generally difficult and it would be life t...

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...