Session 23: European and Global ART Monitoring (presentation of the EIM and ICMART data reports)
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D. Adamson (U.S.A.)
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ICMART World Report: Preliminary data for 2009 |
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S.J. Dyer (South Africa)
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ICMARTs role in national registries: the South Africa story |
Session 24: Culture media. Growing faster growing better?
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T. Adeniyi (United Kingdom)
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What makes a medium a good medium |
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A. Van Montfoort (The Netherlands)
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Time for being proactive |
Session 25: ASRM exchange session - Genetic and metabolic consequences for fertility in men and women
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D.J. Lamb (U.S.A.)
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Genetic and other controversies in the infertile male |
Session 26: Paramedical invited session – Laboratory: The embryo-endometrial interface – role in implantation/developmental success
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H. Van de Velde (Belgium)
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The contribution of the embryo |
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N. Macklon (United Kingdom)
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The contribution of the endometrium |
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Press conference 2
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D. Stoop (Belgium)
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Egg banking for social reasons: women feel positive about it, even though many believe they will never use the eggs they have stored |
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L. Stocker (United Kingdom)
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Women working shifts are at greater risk of miscarriage, menstrual disruption and subfertility |
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E. Groeneveld (The Netherlands)
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Women who give birth to multiple babies after IVF are at higher risk of breast cancer than mothers of singletons and those who remain childless |
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C. Williams (United Kingdom)
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Large UK population study finds no increased cancer risk in children born after assisted conception |
Session 27: Genes and chromosomes in oocytes and embryos
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L. Hyslop (United Kingdom)
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Blastocyst formation, cell proliferation, and NANOG expression are not comprised by cleavage stage vitrification using a closed system |
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K. Wong (The Netherlands)
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Factors correlated with aneuploidy in human preimplantation embryos |
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Session 29: Ovarian stimulation
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D. Bodri (Hungary)
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Cumulative live birth rates following minimal ovarian stimulation/natural cycle IVF and single embryo transfer in unselected infertile patients: a 3-year, single-centre, Japanese cohort study |
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W. Verpoest (Belgium)
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The effect of the type of ovarian stimulation protocol on PGD results: a prospective randomised trial |
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N. Weiss (The Netherlands)
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Continued treatment with clomiphene citrate in subfertile women with World Health Organization type II anovulation who are not pregnant after six ovulatory cycles |
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E. Groeneveld (The Netherlands)
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Increased breast cancer risk after multiple implantation in IVF: a cohort study |
Session 30: Fertility preservation for medical and non-medical indications
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H. Roness (Israel)
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Cyclophosphamide triggers follicle activation causing ovarian reserve 'burn out'; AS101 prevents follicle loss and preserves fertility |
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D. Stoop (Belgium)
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Oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE): a follow-up study |
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L. Parmegiani (Italy)
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Rapid warming increases survival rate of slow frozen (SF) oocytes; randomised controlled study on sibling human oocytes |
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K. Winkler (Austria)
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Dynamic perifusion culture initiates in vivo-like early follicular growth in prepubertal murine ovarian tissue |
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A. Stein (Israel)
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A novel method for cryopreservation of very low count human spermatozoa |
Session 31: PGD/PGS
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M. Vega (U.S.A.)
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Euploid embryos are far more likely to undergo blastulation than aneuploid embryos when based on single blastomere array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) |
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F. Fiorentino (Italy)
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Preimplantation genetic screening on day 3 embryos using array comparative genomic hybridization in patients with advanced maternal age: a prospective double blinded randomized controlled trial |
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H. Ghevaria (United Kingdom)
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Non-reciprocal errors and germinal mosaicism detected by the application of array-CGH to oocytes and polar bodies unexposed to sperm |
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S. Morin (U.S.A.)
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Is cohort size of euploid blastocysts following comprehensive chromosomal screening predictive of improved outcomes in single embryo transfer cycles |
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P. Mir Pardo (Spain)
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Re-analysis of whole day-5 embryos using the same arrayCGH platform used for day-3 diagnosis showed a high confirmation rate |
Session 32: Stem cells and translational research
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R. Anderson (United Kingdom)
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Evaluation of oogonial stem cells and neo-oogenesis in ovaries of girls and women with Turner Syndrome: a pilot study |
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I. Virant - Klun (Slovenia)
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Borderline ovarian cancer: induced by small putative ovarian stem cells resembling very small embryonic-like stem cells? |
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C. Beyazyurek (Turkey)
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Successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) in 39 children from healthy siblings conceived after preimplantation human leukocyte antigen (hla) typing |
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O. Oktem (Turkey)
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Real-time analysis of the growth of human granulosa cells using an impedance-based signal processing system: a new technology for translational research in human reproduction |
Merck Serono Company Symposium: Breakthrough innovation in ART: Science and technologies beyond drugs to maximize success for the benefit of the patients.
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F. Ubaldi (Italy)
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Clinical Strategies to Maximize Success in ART |
Session 33: Chlamydia trachomatis and tubal infertility, modern insights and lessons from outside reproductive medicine
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J.A. Land (The Netherlands)
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How does Chlamydia trachomatis cause tubal infertility? |
Session 34: Why sex is good
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S. Repping (The Netherlands)
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Evolution of sexual reproduction |
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J. Turner (United Kingdom)
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Meiosis: A highly risky cell division |
Session 35: Paramedical selected oral session - Nursing
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E. Dancet (Belgium)
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Gaps in fertility patients’ knowledge about the effect of age and lifestyle on pregnancy and miscarriage rates after spontaneous and after medically assisted conception |
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V. De Fr*ne (Belgium)
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A study of the health-related quality of life in overweight and obese adult women with the polycystic ovary syndrome during a lifestyle modification program |
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D. Barber (United Kingdom)
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Women's experiences of antenatal services following In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF): a qualitative study |
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Session 37: Historical lecture
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E.G. Hughes (Canada)
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The history of reproduction through ART – a visual journey from caves to chromosomes |
Session 38: Managing relationship through infertility (Organised by Fertility Europe)
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H.S. Olafsdottir (Iceland)
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Love, sex and infertility. The art of growing as a couple when dealing with infertility |
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E. Bor (The Netherlands)
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Surviving Infertility: How I never became a dad, but still going strong with my wife |
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T. Child (United Kingdom)
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Ending fertility treatment- when, why and how should clinicians advise our patients? |
Session 39: Paramedical invited session - Laboratory
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A. Wetzels (The Netherlands)
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Is there a future for sperm morphology? |
Session 40: Embryo metabolism
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A. Chatzimeletiou (Greece)
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Metabolic profile of the human embryo and its association with chromosomal abnormalities |
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A. Elaimi (United Kingdom)
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The effect of GM-CSF on murine embryo development, aneuploidy, DNA fragmentation and morphokinetic parameters analysed using EmbryoScope™ |
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S. Kleijkers (The Netherlands)
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Ammonium accumulates in IVF culture medium but this does not affect the birth weight of the newborn |
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J.G. Thompson (Australia)
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BMP-15 supplementation to COCs during bovine IVM alters intra-oocyte metabolism by altering the source of NADPH production |
Session 42: Ethical aspects of ART
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H. Darby (United Kingdom)
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Medical frontiers: debating mitochondria replacement |
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I. Raes (Belgium)
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Genetic relatedness as one step ahead: how lesbian couples deal with the presence of a single genetic link |
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A. Smajdor (United Kingdom)
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Redefining reproduction |
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A. Ravelingien (Belgium)
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The right to know your genetic parents: from open-identity gamete donation to universal paternity testing |
Session 43: Spermatogenesis - the new knowledge
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K.M. Wan (United Kingdom)
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Dysfunctional spermatogenesis in sickle cell disease and thalassaemia |
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L. Harvey (U.S.A.)
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Origin of DNA fragmentation: pre- or post-spermiogenesis |
Session 44: Long term outcome of ART
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A. Pinborg (Denmark)
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Risk of cancer in children and young adults born after IVF – a Nordic cohort study from the CoNARTaS group |
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C. Cesta (Sweden)
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Psychological distress and involuntary childlessness in women: a register-based Swedish cohort study |
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S. Gameiro (United Kingdom)
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Correlates of long-term psychosocial adjustment and mental-health care consumption of 7148 women who did infertility treatment |
Session 45: Clinical female infertility
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K. Peeraer (Belgium)
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Effect of controlled ovarian stimulation with low dose human menopausal gonadotrophin or clomiphene on reproductive outcome after intrauterine insemination: a prospective, multicenter randomized trial |
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S. Puri (India)
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The impact of Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) on subsequent fertility when used as a substitute for invasive operations like myomectomy and in obstetrical emergencies |
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C. Herbemont (France)
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Clinical predictive criteria for live birth following elective single embryo transfer |
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J. Bellver (Spain)
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Obesity and impaired uterine receptivity: clinical experience from 9,587 first cycles of ovum donation |
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Session 46: Epigenetics in reproductive health
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Y. Tang (China)
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Aberrant DNA methylation of GRB10 gene in human spontaneous abortions after assisted reproduction techniques and natural conception |
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K. Sadek (United Kingdom)
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Maternal high fat diet during pregnancy impacts on markers of folliculogenesis in the offspring |
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K. Swann (United Kingdom)
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The effect of different ovarian stimulation protocols on imprinted gene expression and live birth rates in mice |
Session 47: Reproductive surgery
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S. Amer (United Kingdom)
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Long-term reproductive performance after surgery for ovarian endometrioma |
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V. Asfour (United Kingdom)
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Predictors for ovarian histological preservation after ovarian torsion, and the possible impact on future fertility |
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Y. Cheong (United Kingdom)
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To lyse or not to lyse: results from a randomized controlled trial of adhesiolysis versus diagnostic laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain |
Session 48: Challenges of AMH studies
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C. Fitzgerald (United Kingdom)
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AMH assays: a review of the literature on assay method comparability |
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X. Han (Australia)
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Pre-mixing samples with assay buffer is an essential pre-requisite for reproducible Antimullerian Hormone (AMH) measurement using the Beckman Coulter Gen II assay (Gen II) |
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M. Caanen (The Netherlands)
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Anti-mullerian hormone serum levels decrease in female to male transsexual women using testosterone as cross-sex therapy |
Session 49: Protecting and choosing good sperm
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R. Gualtieri (Italy)
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Treatment of bovine spermatozoa with antioxidants improves embryo production in vitro |
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R. Talevi (Italy)
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Treatment with zinc, d-aspartate and coenzyme q10 protects human spermatozoa in vitro |
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A. Thijssen (Belgium)
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Influence of temperature and preparation techniques on sperm quality |
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R. Zeirideen Zaid (United Kingdom)
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The potential use of consecutive ejaculates for gaining better quality sperm during fertility treatment |
Session 50: Reproduction and society
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I. Scholten (The Netherlands)
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Do randomized clinical trials in reproductive medicine compare strategies or treatment cycles - a systematic sample review |
Session 51: Fertility awareness
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E. Koert (Canada)
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"I wish I had known!" - supporting informed reproductive and childbearing-decisions for women and men |
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L.E. Bunting (United Kingdom)
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The impact of personalising fertility risk information: double blind randomised control trial measuring attentional allocation and physiological reactions to presenting risk information to young women |
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I. Daly (United Kingdom)
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“I kinda thought it was something if you wanted to do, you could just do it”: women’s understanding of IVF efficacy - implications for clinical practice |
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