Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease frequently associated with infertility. Reproductive potential may be impaired by ovarian endometriomas, age-related decline, inflammatory and anatomical mechanisms, and ovarian surgery. This …
The meiotic spindle is essential for accurate chromosome segregation during oocyte maturation and fertilization, and its alteration might be considered a major contributor to age-related aneuploidy and reproductive failure. Spindle formatio…
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…
Although unilateral oophorectomies are performed more often than bilateral ones in women of reproductive age, their clinical consequences have been less intensively investigated. Experimental models in animals have shown that compensatory m…