STUDY QUESTION Do heterosexual parents of young children following oocyte donation (OD) and sperm donation (SD) tell or intend to tell their offspring about the way he/she was conceived? SUMMARY ANSWER Following successful treatment with oocytes or sperm from identity-release donors in Sweden, almost all heterosexual couples intend to tell their offspring about the way he/she was conceived an...

The prognosis of couples with recurrent miscarriage is controversial despite efforts made during this century to learn about the physiopathology and treatment of this troublesome condition. Here we present our experiences of employing oocyte donation in eight couples in whom the woman was a low responder to gonadotrophin stimulation and had a previous history of recurrent abortion with negative...

Recurrent hydatidiform mole is defined as episodes of two molar pregnancies in a female. Often, complete moles onlyderive androgenic nuclear genome. We described two cases with repeated molar pregnancies attempted to preventfuture episodes by performing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)to assess genetic disorders. The first pat...

With the development of rapid freezing of human oocytes, many programs have reported IVF success rates comparable to those achieved with fresh eggs and thawed frozen embryos. Egg freezing is now gaining professional and regulatory acceptance as a safe and effective technique for women who wish to avoid discarding excess embryos, who face fertility-threatening medical treatments, or who want to ...

The story is, unfortunately, nothing new. A woman and a man long to bring a child into the world, but they are unable to do so because the woman is infertile. So they turn to the scientific stork— the field of assisted reproductive technology (ART)—to deliver their baby. Some infertile couples choose surrogacy; others choose in vitro fertilization (IVF). It all depends on the particular roadblo...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this prospective randomised study was to evaluate if there is an improvement in clinical outcomes when assisted hatching (AH) is performed in embryos derived from vitrified/warmed oocytes in an ovum donation programme using egg cryobanking. STUDY DESIGN Sixty oocyte recipients in a donation programme using egg cryobanking were randomly allocated to the assisted hatc...

STUDY QUESTION What is the relationship between parent psychological adjustment, type of gamete donation (donor insemination, egg donation) and parents' disclosure of their use of donated gametes to their children. SUMMARY ANSWER Disclosure of donor origins to the child was not always associated with optimal levels of psychological adjustment, especially for fathers in donor insemination fami...