Live birth after orthotopic grafting of autologous cryopreserved ovarian tissue and spontaneous conception in Italy.

Objective: To describe a live birth obtained in Italy after autologous orthotopic transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian cortical tissue.

Design: Case report.

Setting: University department of gynecology and obstetrics, reproductive medicine and IVF unit.

Fertility Preservation Methods in Breast Cancer.

Thanks to the recent advances in reproductive medicine, more and more young women with breast cancer may be offered the possibility of preserving their fertility. Fertility can be endangered by chemotherapy, by treatment duration and by patient's age at diagnosis. The currently available means to preserve a young woman's fertility are pharmacological protection with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues during chemotherapy, and ovarian tissue or oocyte/embryo freezing before treatment.

Oocyte cryostorage to preserve fertility in oncological patients.

Thanks to the progress in oncostatic treatments, young women affected by cancer have a fairly good chance of surviving the disease and leading a normal post-cancer life. Quite often, however, polychemiotherapy and/or radiotherapy can induce ovarian damage and significantly reduce the content of follicles and oocytes inside the ovary, thus predisposing the patient to menstrual disorders, infertility, and precocious menopause. Several techniques have been proposed to preserve fertility in these patients; among them oocyte collection and cryopreservation prior to the oncostatic treatment has been widely applied in the last decade.

FSH-receptor Ala307Thr polymorphism is associated to polycystic ovary syndrome and to a higher responsiveness to exogenous FSH in Italian women.

Objective: Herein we analyzed FSH-R polymorphism at position 307 aiming (a) to assess the prevalence of the three allelic variants (Ala307Ala, Ala307Thr and Thr307Thr) in relation to the type of ovary and (b) to clarify if the allelic variant could influence the responsiveness to exogenous FSH.

Study Design: We prospectively studied a group of 106 Italian women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), among which 40 were subjects with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and 66 were normo-ovulatory women with a normal ovarian morphology at transvaginal ultrasound. DNA extraction, denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (dHPLC) and DNA sequencing were used to detect the FSH-R 307 polymorphic genotype and the whole exon 10 was analyzed.

Low-dose acetylsalicylic acid plus prednisolone as an adjuvant treatment in IVF: a prospective, randomized study.

Objective: To test whether adjuvant therapy with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and prednisolone (ASA+Pred) could improve the outcome of IVF in good-pregnancy prognosis patients.

Design: Prospective, randomized study.

Setting: University hospital.