Chromatin Morphology in Human Germinal Vesicle Oocytes and Their Competence to Mature in Stimulated Cycles.

The search for simple morphological predictors of oocyte quality is an important task for assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs). One such predictor may be the morphology of the oocyte nucleus, called the germinal vesicle (GV), including the level of chromatin aggregation around the atypical nucleolus (ANu)-a peculiar nuclear organelle, formerly referred to as the nucleolus-like body. A prospective cohort study allowed distinguishing three classes of GV oocytes among 135 oocytes retrieved from 64 patients: with a non-surrounded ANu and rare chromatin blocks in the nucleoplasm (Class A), with a complete peri-ANu heterochromatic rim assembling all chromatin (Class C), and intermediate variants (Class B).

Thyroid disorders and pathospermia in the ART clinic patients.

Objective: Over the past decade, a decrease in the semen quality in men of reproductive age, along with an increase in the incidence of thyroid diseases among young patients have been clearly noticed. The study was designed to determine various forms of pathospermia in the ART clinic patients with thyroid disorders.

Materials And Methods: 168 men of reproductive age in infertile marriage were examined.

Proinflammatory mediators and reproductive failure in women with uterine fibroids.

Objective: study the levels of proinflammatory mediators and their correlation with reproductivefailure in women with uterine fibroids (UF).

Materials And Methods: 90 women aged 18 - 45 years (mean age - 33.9 ± 0.

Clinical and laboratory parameters and morphological characteristics of the endometrium in women with impaired fat metabolism and failed IVF attempts.

To study clinical and laboratory parameters and morphological characteristics of the endometrium in women with impaired fat metabolism and failed IVF attempts. Clinical examination, laboratory tests, morphological analysis, and immunohistochemistry of the endometrium were conducted in 76 patients with different BMI, followed up with infertility and failed IVF attempts. Patients were divided into four groups by body mass index (BMI): 1 group - 17 women with overweight, BMI = 25.

Mental state assessment of recipients in the IVF donor programs and psychotherapeutic methods of its correction.

The management of infertility with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) could solve a medical problem but still leave psychosocial problems, associated with both long-term infertility and specific treatment, unaddressed in a number of cases. Evaluation of the mental state of recipients in the IVF donor programs and its dynamics when mid-term multimodal psychotherapy has been used. The study was conducted in the Family Medicine Center - an ART clinic of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia between 2016 and 2017.