The Fertility Promise : : Medicine Demystified.

• Author: Hollands, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Bentham Science Publishers,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 pages)

Table of Contents

• 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.