PURPOSE: Environmental microbiological monitoring is mandatory in IVF laboratories; however, procedure-specific risk assessment across the entire medically assisted reproduction workflow remains limited. This multicenter study, named "SMILE…
BACKGROUND: Reproductive success shows a well-documented decline with advancing maternal age, primarily due to chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidies) in embryos. While ovarian reserve markers such as Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) and Antra…
PURPOSE: To assess whether embryo transfer (ET) technique can influence the clinical pregnancy rate (CPR) and its correlation with the embryo transfer difficulty. DESIGN: This single center retrospective cohort analysis of fresh and frozen…
BACKGROUND: folliculogenesis is a strictly regulated process that may be affected by endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) through sometimes not so clear molecular mechanisms. METHODS: we conducted a multicentric observational study involv…
OBJECTIVE: To assess rates of successful testicular sperm retrieval and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) outcome in cancer survivors affected by non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) or retrograde ejaculation (RE)/failure of emission (FO…
PURPOSE: To report our experience on homologous intrauterine insemination (IUI) with gonadotropin controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) cycles and to examine different variables which could predict IUI success. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This i…
PURPOSE: To report the effects of blastocyst stage aneuploidy testing on clinical, gestational, and neonatal outcomes for patients of advanced maternal age undergoing IVF. METHODS: This is a single-center observational-cohort study with 2 …
PURPOSE: To analyse the impact of female characteristics on assisted reproductive technology outcome among male haematological cancer survivors. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 93 haematological cancer survivors attending our tertiary…
PURPOSE: Is there a difference in implantation and pregnancy rates between embryos transferred electively at cleavage or blastocyst stage in infertile women ≤ 38 years with at least four zygotes on day 1 post retrieval? METHODS: A randomiz…
BACKGROUND: Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) provides an opportunity to eliminate a potential implantation failure due to aneuploidy in infertile couples. Some studies clearly show that twins following single embryo transfer (SET) ca…
PURPOSE: This study aims to compare implantation, pregnancy, and delivery rates in frozen transfer cycles with blastocysts that were vitrified either with artificial shrinking (AS group) or without (NAS group). METHODS: Retrospective compa…