Phthalates and Bisphenol A: Presence in Blood Serum and Follicular Fluid of Italian Women Undergoing Assisted Reproduction Techniques.

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 involving six fertility centers across Italy, prospectively recruiting 122 women attending a fertility treatment. Recruited women had age ≤42 years, and normal ovarian reserve.

Hysteroscopic diagnosis and treatment of endocervical ossification: a case report.

We describe a case of osseous metaplasia into the cervical canal in a 41-year-old woman. The patient had a history of primary infertility, pelvic pain, chronic endocervicitis, and bone formation in the upper third of the cervical canal. After antibiotic therapy, we removed bone fragments by operative hysteroscopy using grasping forceps.

Males with subnormal hypo-osmotic swelling test scores have lower pregnancy rates than those with normal scores when ovulation induction and timed intercourse is used as a treatment for mild problems with sperm count, motility, or morphology.

This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness and clinical usefulness of the hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test in predicting successful conception in couples in which men with mild male-factor infertility criteria were undergoing a timed vaginal inter-course protocol. One hundred couples, in which mild male infertility was the only abnormality, were included in the study. Semen was analyzed according to standard World Health Organization (WHO) criteria and subjected to the HOS test.

Chromosome analysis of spontaneous abortions after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

Objective: To verify the hypothesis that the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities significantly increases in the products of conception of males with sub-fertility, treated with assisted reproduction techniques (ART).

Study Design: All removed products of conception tissues were analyzed with standard cytogenetic techniques. A karyotype of the abortions was possible in 35 cases of IVF and 29 of ICSI.

47,XX + mar karyotype containing genes from the azoospermia factor region. A case report.

Background: Abnormal embryo development is the major cause of implantation failure and accounts for the low rate of human fertility in vitro and in vivo. Chromosome abnormalities are widely involved in this process through meiotic nondisjunction, fertilization abnormalities and mitotic nondisjunction.

Case: In our assisted reproductive technology program a couple underwent cytogenetic analysis.