Winter-Course December 2008

ESHRE Campus Course

Milan, Italy

18-19 December 2008

Speakers' hand-outs

• 3D-Gel Instillation Sonohysterography (GIS) – N. Exalto (NL)
• Detection of uterine anomalies – C. Exacoustos (IT)
• TVS in diagnosing adenomyosis – F.P.G. Leone (Italy)
• Endometrial and myometrial stem cells in the human uterus – C. Simon (ES), presented by J.A. Horcajadas (ES)
• Does adenomyosis cause subfertility/impl? Evidence-based analysis – T. D’Hooghe (BE)
• Medical and surgical therapy in treating adenomyosis – C. Chapron (FR)
• The emerging role of progesterone in recurring miscarriage. Against – S. Quenby (UK)
• Motion: progesterone has a potential role in recurrent miscarriage – A. Coomarasamy (UK)
• Clinical impact of pregnancies of unknown location – D. Jurkovic (UK)
• Ultrasound diagnosis and clinical management of ectopic pregnancy –E. Kirk (UK)
• Clinical impact of high definition 3D-scanning in early pregnancy –S. Rigano (Italy)
• First trimester uterine artery doppler assessment and cervical length measurements – A. Locatelli (IT)
• The antiphospholipid syndrome and pregnancy – B. Hunt (UK)
• IVF pregnancy in the over 40’s – G.I. Serour (EG)
• Submitted abstracts selected for oral presentation
  Predicting adverse obstetric outcome after early pregnancy events and complications - R. van Oppenraaij (NL)
  First trimester growth charts derived from virtual reality measurements – C.M. Verwoerd-Dikkeboom (NL)
  Selective karyotyping in recurrent miscarriage: is recent evidence implemented in daily clinical practice? – E. van den Boogaard (NL)
  Optimising the timing of an ultrasound scan to assess the location and viability of an early pregnancy – C. Bottomley (UK)
• Submitted abstracts selected for poster presentation
  Successful pregnancy after etanercept immunotherapy in women with a history of recurrent miscarriage – M. Jerzak (PL)
  Human chorionic gonadotropin beta gene variants and expressional profile are associated to recurrent miscarriages – K. Rull (EE)
  Patients’ preferences for salpingostomy relative to salpingectomy in tubal ectopic pregnancy: a discrete choice experiment – N. Van Mello (NL)
  Pre-implantation genetic screening (pgs) as a tool to increase live birth rates in couples with unexplained recurrent miscarriage – A. Musters (NL)
  Autoimmune and thrombophilic causes of implantation failure in Greek couples – P. Drakakis (GR)
  Determination of outcome in very early intrauterine pregnancies of uncertain viability – C. Bottomley (UK)
  The addition of "consecutive" to the definition of recurrent miscarriage; is there any influence on the probability of carrier status? – E. van den Boogaard (NL)