Greco E

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders involve abnormal placental invasion into the uterine wall and neighbouring organs, posing life-threatening risks during and after labour. Catastrophic obstetric haemorrhage remains the main morbidit…

Semen quality is a key factor in male fertility, but defining normal reference values for semen parameters remain challenging. Over the past four decades, several authors have reported a noticeable decline in sperm parameters, raising conce…

Over the past 40 years there has been a worldwide critical change in the field of assisted reproduction technology (ART), leading to the increased application of single blastocyst transfer, which is extremely important to avoid the risks of…

PurposeTo estimate the contribution of cryopreservation to the cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) after law modification in Italy in the era of vitrification and freeze-all.MethodsThe Italian National Registry performed a cycle-based data co…

PurposeThe aim of the present study was to evaluate whether in a modified natural cycle (modified-NC) for a frozen-thawed single euploid blastocyst transfer, a critical LH value, above which human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) administration…

PurposeThe aim of the study was to evaluate two methods of endometrial preparation for frozen-thawed single euploid blastocyst transfer: modified natural and artificial cycle with GnRH-agonist pituitary suppression.MethodsIn this prospectiv…

PurposeThe aim of the present randomized, comparative study was to evaluate the effect of reduced culture volumes on sibling human embryo development.MethodsFirstly, sibling injected oocytes obtained from 88 out of 165 consenting couples un…

The aim of this study is to determine if the use of preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) and transfer of a single euploid blastocyst in patients with repeated implantation failure (R…

PurposeTo evaluate the role of co-transfer of embryos derived from vitrified oocytes accumulated during the previous modified natural cycles and an embryo developed from the last one as an alternative to repetitive single embryo transfer in…

A 33-year-old woman with a 2-year history of swelling and pain in her buttock and left thigh fluctuating with her menstrual cycle who was becoming progressively disabled was referred to the department of orthopedics. Magnetic resonance imag…

The diagnosis of adenomyosis is feasible on pathological specimen examination, while it is unreliable on clinical findings, biopsy, hysteroscopy, sonohysterography, and routine ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging. Several patterns of '…

In the last years the entire scientific community has devoted remarkable resources to the understanding of endometriosis. In spite of this, endometriosis remains one of the most complex gynecological diseases, in nearly all of its physiopat…