Minimal Stimulation and Natural Cycle in Vitro Fertilization

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• Highlights the significance of cryopreservation technology, a useful adjunct to minimal stimulation protocols
• Explains how natural cycle IVF can lead to a milder, safer and more effective approach to ART?Reviews significance of cryopreservation technology, with its manifold future advantages
• Written by leading experts in this field

This contributed volume regenerates the significance of and respect for natural phenomenon in the background of the risks and complications seen in ART such as ovarian hyperstimulation and multiple pregnancies. Balancing the clinical practice between the beneficial natural physiology and the prolific use of stimulation drugs for ART may help eliminate risks that may prove clinically, financially and psychologically expensive. It underscores the fact that ‘greater’ is not always synonymous with ‘better’ with regard to the oocyte yield. While highlighting the risks involved with the use of high-dose gonadotropins, the book presents a stratification of patients who might benefit from the ‘soft’ minimal and natural cycle IVF stimulation protocols that may be used. Additionally, clinicians can understand the significance of cryopreservation technology, now a useful adjunct to minimal stimulation protocols, with its manifold future advantages. Written by an international team of experts, this handbook emphasizes how minimal stimulation and natural cycle IVF can lead to a milder, safer and more effective approach to ART.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Budget IVF - Monofollicular stimulation - Ovarian insufficiency - Ovarian stimulation - Vitrification
Related subjects » Gynecology - Internal Medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ART stimulation in the next decade – an overview .-Natural cycle IVF without medication.-The use of letrozol in minimal stimulation IVF.-Use of clomiphene and prostaglandin inhibitors in natural cycle IVF.-The role of GnRH analogue triggering in natural cycle and minimal stimulation IVF.-Natural cycle IVF in patients with ovarian insufficiency using luteal phase stimulation.-Ovarian stimulation in patients with ovarian insufficiency.-Monofollicular stimulation for IVF in PCOS patients.-Budget IVF using clomiphene, hMG & antagonists.-Vitrification is the keystone to minimal stimulation IVF.-Minimal stimulation IVF – the 2-step procedure.

AUTHORS & EDITORS

Dr. Gautam Allahbadia, is medical director of Rotunda-The Center For Human Reproduction, Bandra, Mumbai and Deccan Fertility Clinic & Keyhole Surgery Center, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India. He is also visting lecturer at Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faulty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel. He has published numerous papers in both national and international journals. He has edited and contributed chapters to more than 10 books. Few of his publications are: 1.Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Editor: Gautam N Allahbadia, Rina Agrawal. Editorial Assistant: Rubina Merchant Anshan Publishing, UK, First Edition: 2007 2.Embryo Transfer Editor: Gautam N Allahbadia, Editorial Assistant: Rubina Merchant Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi. First Edition: 2008 3.The Fallopian Tube Editors: Gautam N Allahbadia, Ertan Saridogan, Ovrang Djahanbakhch; Associate Editor: Rubina Merchant Anshan Publishing, UK, 2008 4.Donor Egg IVF Editor: Gautam N Allahbadia, Editorial Assistant: Rubina Merchant Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi. First Edition: 2009 5.Textbook of Minimal Stimulation IVF –Milder, Mildest or Back to Nature. Editors: Gautam N Allahbadia, Alejandro Chávez-Badiola; Assistant Editor: Rubina Merchant Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi. First Edition: 2011