Does the experience of the provider affect pregnancy rates after embryo transfer?

Objective: To study the influence of provider experience in a university hospital where resident physicians need to learn how to perform embryo transfer (ET).

Study Design: A cohort prospective study was conducted in a tertiary care university medical center between March 2008 and August 2009. A total of 443 women undergoing fresh ET after in vitro fertilization were studied.

[Female fertility preservation: feasibility of emergency IVF for embryo freezing].

With the improvement of the anticancerous treatments, the preservation of the feminine fertility before gonadotoxic treatment tends at present to stand out as a legal obligation, with a duty of information to patients. When emergency IVF can be performed, the cryopreservation of embryos is the best mastered method which offers most chances to patients to obtain a pregnancy after cancer remission thanks to the transfer of frozen embryos. This article proposes an overview about the indications, the feasibility and the ethical and practical limitations of IVF emergency for embryo freezing before gonadotoxic anticancerous treatment.

[Do couples who procreate through sperm donation inform their children?].

Objectives: An amendment to the French bioethics law allowing children conceived by gamete donation to know the identity of donors is proposed, while no study can assess the proportion of parents in France that disclose the nature of conception to their donor conceived offspring. The aim of our study was to know whether couples who wish to inform their offspring actually did it.

Patients And Methods: We sent a questionnaire to parents who had expressed an intention to disclose the nature of conception to their future offspring conceived by sperm donation.

Obstetric outcome of women with in vitro fertilization pregnancies hospitalized for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: a case-control study.

Objective: To evaluate the obstetric outcome of women with IVF pregnancies hospitalized for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS).

Design: A case-control study.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine.

[What are at present the real hopes of pregnancy after ovarian cryopreservation?].

Survival rates for cancers that occur in childhood and adolescence have improved over the last decades, and preservation of future fertility in these patients has become a relevant issue. Premature ovarian failure is a consequence of exposing women to chemotherapeutic drugs and ionizing radiation. Ovarian cryopreservation is an alternative to cryopreservation of embryos or oocytes for theses patients.