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Increasing Paternal Age and Ejaculatory Abstinence Length Negatively Influence the Outcomes of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection in an Egg-Sharing Donation Programme

Infertility is experienced by an estimated 48.5 million couples worldwide.1 Even though male factor infertility is known to play a role in 50% of the…

Anthropometry Between the External Urethral Orifice and the Vaginal Introitus in Vaginism

Vaginismus is a female sexual dysfunction with a multifactorial aetiology, and is characterised by recurrent or persistent involuntary spasm of the perineum muscles, which are adjacent to the lower third of the vagina.

Low Serum βhCG Concentration on Outcome Day (Trigger Day +17) Identifies a Subgroup of Women at Risk of Poor Perinatal Outcome

Pregnancies following assisted reproduction are at higher risk of poorer perinatal outcome.1 Algorithms combining age and various maternal serum hormone…

Description and Outcomes of Current Clinical Techniques for Sperm Cryopreservation

The cryopreservation of human spermatozoa for assisted reproduction techniques is a clinical practice implemented worldwide since its early beginnings…

Anti-Müllerian Hormone as a Quantitative and Qualitative Marker of Euploid Blastocysts

Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is widely used in clinical practice to predict the ovarian response after ovarian stimulation and is considered as valid…

Fibroids and Infertility

Uterine fibroids, also known as myomas, are benign growths of the uterus’ smooth muscle tissue. They are the most common tumours to be found in the lower…

Causes and Impact of Cryopreservation-Associated Damage on Different Parameters of Human Spermatozoa and its Clinical Impact

The cryopreservation of gametes, as well as more complex multicellular organisms such as embryos, is an increasingly common practice in the field of…

Single Nucleotide Variations of Mitotic Arrest Deficient 1 Like 1 (MAD1L1) and MAD2L1 Genes in Products of Conception with Aneuploidy

Miscarriage is a pregnancy loss before the 20th week of the gestation. At least 15% of the recognised pregnancies will be terminated by spontaneous…

BESST, a Non-Invasive Computational Tool for Embryo Selection Using Mass Spectral Profiling of Embryo Culture Media

The current gold standard of embryo evaluation is based on morphology and morphokinetics, however there have been many efforts to design non-invasive…

Optimising the Outcome of Embryo Transfer

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a complex procedure, the success of which is dependent on several factors at every step of the process. Despite major advances, IVF implantation rates (IR) remain low and only a small percentage of patients achieve pregnancy.