Bettina Toth

BACKGROUND: Adenomyosis is associated with lower implantation and higher miscarriage rates. Studies on recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) and recurrent implantation failure (RIF) have shown that endometrial immune cell populations play a crucia…

OBJECTIVE: To study the crosstalk between maternal immune cells and the developing embryo by investigating the immunogenic properties of human blastocyst spent media (SM) on dendritic cells. METHODS: In this prospective multicenter experim…

Endometriosis has been shown to be associated with unfavorable development and maturation of oocytes, as well as aberrancies in embryonal development, including arrest after fertilization, following in vitro fertilization (IVF). Time-lapse …

Aim This official guideline was published and coordinated by the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG with the involvement of other medical societies. The aim was to provide a consensus-based overview of non-hormonal forms of contraception based on an eval…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of persons around the world are receiving the diagnosis of gender incongruence, and most of them are in their reproductive years. Safe contraception and fertility preservation are important issues for counse…

INTRODUCTION: The way pupils and university students talk about sex does not reflect their real understanding of reproductive health issues. Therefore, we developed a survey for pupils and students in Tyrol, Austria, to evaluate the current…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is often associated with severe dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain and dyspareunia and has a high impact on daily life as well as sexuality. Quality of partnership positively influences the course of various diseases and ab…

PURPOSE: To develop a predictive score for the success of intrauterine insemination (IUI) based on clinical parameters. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study evaluating the homologous IUI cycles performed at a single universit…

PURPOSE: The diagnosis of probable multiple system atrophy relies on the presence of severe cardiovascular or urogenital autonomic failure. Erectile dysfunction is required to fulfil the latter criterion in men, whereas no corresponding ite…

PURPOSE: Infertility is a debilitating situation that millions of women around the world suffer from, but the causal relationship between infertility and endometriosis is still unclear. We hypothesize that the immune cell populations of ute…

Introduction Supporting and counselling couples with fertility issues prior to starting ART is a multidisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The first German/Austrian/Swiss interdisciplinary S2k guideline on "Diagnosis and Thera…

Recent developments in reproductive medicine address oocyte morphology, sperm analysis and embryo selection. However, in a subgroup of infertile couples, it is the embryo implantation process that is disrupted. Diagnostic tools to identify …

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) belong to the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors. Recent investigations emphasize a possible involvement of PPAR in obstetric and gynaecologic disorders like polycystic ovarian syndro…