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Antral Follicle Count Measurements in Women

The decline in natural fertility goes hand in hand with the initial depletion of follicles and aging of the ovaries. The transformation of individual primary follicles into a growing follicular pool allows direct imaging with endovaginal ultrasound, when these growing follicles develop a fluid-filled anthrum that reaches ~2 mm in diameter.
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Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Elevations

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is the dimeric glycoprotein produced by the anterior pituitary, responsible for testicular spermatogenesis and ovarian folliculogenesis, acting on its cognate receptor on the Sertoli cell and granulosa cell, respectively. Evidence of early follicular phase (basal/cycle day 2-4) FSH elevations with reproductive aging was first established more than 40 years ago.
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Ovarian Reserve Test and Its Implications on Fertility

The goal of the patient who is experiencing infertility is to achieve a healthy live birth at term. Prior to embarking on treatment directed towards that outcome, it is invaluable to be able to provide the patient (-s) with prognostic information on their proposed treatments. Towards that aim, ovarian reserve test has been developed, with the goal of being able to predict the probability of fertility treatment success.
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What Are the Causes of Tubal Factor Infertility?

The fallopian tube serves as the major conduit between the ovary and the uterus. It provides mechanical transport and physiological support of gametes and cleavage stage embryos. Tubal damage can either exist due to external or internal injury which leads to dysfunctional transport of gametes. Assessment of tubal disease plays a major role in determining a woman’s fertility potential.
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What Is Poor Ovarian Reserve Condition?

The standard definition of poor ovarian reserve (or, poor ovarian responder) remains uncertain, and consequently the proposed protocols adopted to manage poor responders are very difficult to compare. The Bologna criteria represent the first attempt to build an international consensus in the definition of poor ovarian reserve.
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Effects of A Drug Use During Pregnancy

Women can be prescribed a variety of drugs for treating a medical condition or a disease without considering the possibility of pregnancy. For example, a sexually-active young female suffering from recurrent convulsions are usually prescribed an antiepileptic drug-to be taken continuously. It is quite possible for such a woman to become pregnant while taking the anti-epileptic drug. Since most of the antiepileptic drugs are teratogenic, serious damage to the conceptus as well as a significant psychological burden on the mother may occur.
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The Most Common Causes of Male Infertility

Unfortunately, 12-15% of all sexually active couples are infertile. The male factor infertility can be identified in 50% of cases, either alone or in combination with the female factor. In previous studies that analyzed numerous male patients, the causes of male infertility were identified from the most common to the rarest: varicocele, idiopathic obstruction, female factor, cryptorchidism, immunology, ejaculatory dysfunction, testicular insufficiency, drug effects / radiation, endocrinology and others.
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Umbilical Cord Blood Banking in Ukraine

Today, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be performed by using stem cells that have been obtained from three major sources such as bone marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood from autologous, related allogeneic or unrelated allogeneic donors.
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Evaluating Fertility Centers in Ukraine

When women think about infertility treatment, they often depend upon reference to a famous physician. Commonly, they carefully check all the details and ask their friends, relatives and other medical workers about live births. A well-known physician can change everything, and this is almost true. But the not-so-well-known fact is that embryo labs in the fertility centers are significantly different from each other in most cases.
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