The Fertility Promise : Medicine Demystified.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- End User License Agreement -- Contents -- Preface -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Dedication -- A Bit of History -- Peter Hollands -- A CHILD IS BORN -- CONTROVERSY -- OTHER OPTIONS FOR FERTILITY PATIENTS? -- THE FIRST FERTILITY TREATMENTS -- The First Technology -- Fertility Treatment Today -- Global IVF -- Money! -- 'Breakthroughs' -- Nobel Prize -- Still Not A Cure -- Population Growth -- ADOPTION -- PIONEERING TIMES -- BLACK MONDAY -- INPATIENTS AND REGULATION -- MORE RECENTLY -- INNOVATION -- PROFIT AND 'ADD-ONS' -- STAGNATION -- THE FUTURE -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 1 -- The Female Patient -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- FEMALE INFERTILITY -- Blocked Tubes -- Endometriosis -- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) -- Thyroid -- Premature Menopause -- Surgical Damage and Fibroids -- Sterilisation -- Medications -- Other Causes of Infertility -- Idiopathic Infertility -- Stress! -- 'BACK-TO-BACK' TREATMENTS -- A FINAL PRAYER -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 2 -- The Male Patient -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MALE ROLE IN FERTILITY TREATMENT -- THE 'MEN'S ROOM' PORNOGRAPHY AND SEMEN ASSESSMENT -- Hot Pants! -- Testicular Damage -- Vasectomy -- Ejaculation and Psychosexual Disorders -- Hormonal and Genetic Disorders -- Medicines and Drugs -- Life-style Issues -- Stress -- A FINAL PRAYER -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 3 -- The LGBT Patients -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- SAME SEX FEMALE PATIENTS -- Surrogacy for Same Sex Female Patients -- Female Partner Providing Eggs for Treatment -- SAME SEX MALE PATIENTS -- Egg Donation and Surrogacy -- Gender Re-Assignment -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 4 -- IVF Clinics -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- MONEY! -- PROFIT (OK, BUT NOT TOO MUCH!) -- PUBLIC PROVISION OF IVF SERVICES (DIFFICULT TO DELIVER).

TREATMENT CYCLE NUMBERS (SIZE IS NOT EVERYTHING) -- 'FAMOUS' (OR INDEED INFAMOUS) CLINIC STAFF -- IVF MARKETING (CAVEAT EMPTOR!) -- IVF CLINIC STATISTICS (IS THAT BLACK ACTUALLY WHITE OR IS IT GREY?) -- SERVICE (GOOD, BAD OR INDIFFERENT) -- FERTILITY CLINIC FACILITIES -- FERTILITY CLINIC STAFF -- FERTILITY CLINIC TECHNOLOGY -- QUESTIONS TO ASK A FERTILITY CLINIC -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 5 -- The Basic Treatment -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FERTILITY MEDICATIONS -- FOLLICULAR GROWTH MONITORING -- OVARIAN HYPER-STIMULATION SYNDROME -- THE EGG COLLECTION -- SEMEN PRODUCTION AND INSEMINATION -- IVF FROM A LABORATORY VIEWPOINT -- THE EMBRYO REPLACEMENT (TRANSFER) -- EMBRYO FREEZING AND REPLACEMENT -- THE PREGNANCY TEST AND THE DAY 35 SCAN -- A 'PRECIOUS' PREGNANCY -- DONOR GAMETES (DONOR SPERM AND DONOR EGGS) -- Donor Sperm -- Donor Sperm in IVF -- Donor Eggs in IVF -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 6 -- The 'Add-Ons' Scandal -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- IVF TECHNOLOGIES AND WORK PRACTICE -- The 'Right' Patient -- 'Wobbly' Evidence -- A 'Re-Boot' of IVF -- TREATMENTS OF MALE INFERTILITY -- 'Catching Sperm' -- 'Add-ons' -- Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) and Related Technologies -- Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI) -- Physiological Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (PICSI) -- Sperm DNA Fragmentation Testing -- Time-Lapse Video Analysis of Embryonic Development -- Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) -- Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening (Aneuploidy Screening) -- Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) -- Endometrial 'scratching' (Endometrial Injury) -- Assisted Hatching -- Embryo Glue -- Elective Freeze All Cycles -- Reproductive Immunology -- Acupuncture -- CONCLUSIONS ON 'ADD-ONS' -- MISLEADING -- COUNSELLING AND CLINICAL TRIALS.

STARTING FROM SCRATCH AND 'BLOBS' -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 7 -- The Regulators and Professional Societies -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- POWER IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING -- UK REGULATION -- THE ROLE OF A REGULATORY AUTHORITY -- What Does the Regulatory Authority Regulate? -- The European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 8 -- The Patient 'Journey' -- Peter Hollands -- THE JOURNEY -- First Things First -- Time is Running Out! -- The First Consultation -- The Second and Nurse Consultation -- At Last! The Treatment is Starting! -- The Day of Egg Collection -- Fertilisation Day and Onwards -- Embryo Replacement (Transfer) Day -- It's Freezing in Here! -- Pregnancy Test Day -- The Day 35 'Heart Beat Scan' -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 9 -- Advice to Fertility Patients -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- MORE ADVICE ON ADVICE -- Optimism and Electronic Advice -- Clinic Counsellor -- Who to Tell? -- Family? -- Friends? -- Should I Tell People At Work? -- Smoking, Alcohol, Obesity and Underweight -- Smoking -- Alcohol -- Obesity -- Back-to-Back Treatment Cycles -- Egg Freezing: Good Idea, False Hope or Money-Making Machine? -- Add-ons -- Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth (Labour) -- Parenthood -- A Second Opinion? -- CHANGING FERTILITY CLINICS? -- INFERTILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH -- IVF MYTHS -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 10 -- The Future of IVF -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- FUTURE TECHNOLOGY -- The Starting Point -- Innovations -- Profit! -- Stagnation -- A PROMISING FUTURE? -- Telemedicine -- INVOcell-A Possible Cheaper Version of IVF? -- Laboratory Automation -- Artificial Intelligence -- Quantum Biology and Quantum Physics -- PRP and Stem Cells -- Embryonic Stem Cells and Hybrids -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 11 -- A Final Thought -- Peter Hollands -- INTRODUCTION -- FERTILITY PATIENTS.

PHYSICIANS -- CLINICAL EMBRYOLOGISTS -- FERTILITY NURSES -- CLINICS -- CONCLUSION -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 12 -- Suggested Further Reading -- USEFUL WEBSITES -- Glossary -- Subject Index -- Back Cover.

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