Towards Reproductive Certainty: Fertility and Genetics Beyond 1999: The Plenary Proceedings of the 11th World Congress

Section 1 - Introduction: IVF and reproductive genetics in 1999: biology, business, ethics and sociology. Fertility in Aboriginality. Section 2 - IVF outcomes, personal ethics and business: Psychosocial effects of infertility and age on women.Psychosocial impact of infertility on men. Protecting the vulnerable in collaborative reproduction How should IVF success rates be reported IVF success rate reporting: consumer needs. IVF babies are not small. Outcomes from intracytoplasmic sperminjection. Follow-up of IVF families. Multiple births - too high a price The emotional pitfalls of multiple pregnancy. IVF families and embryo storage. Breast, ovarian and uterine cancer in 29 700 Australian IVF patients. Still not maternal: giving birthto my niece (10 years on). Infertile mothers: a perspective from research and experience. My mothers and my mum. Gestational surrogacy is an integral part of IVF: a 10-year report. A decade of gestational carrier pregnancy. Egg donation: the lessons fromcommercial activities. What motivates paid ovum donors Donor insemination: which families tell Sperm donation: the donor's right to know. Section 3 - Biology of the egg: Frozen banking of follicles. Requirements for oocyte development. FSH andfollicular development. Follicular stimulation for IVF: should GnRH agonists be our first choice Minimal ovarian stimulation for IVF: extending the 'follicle stimulating hormone window'. Recombinant FSH therapy alone versus combination therapy withrecombinant LH therapy in patients down-regulated with a low-dose luteal GnRH agonist protocol: preliminary results. Follicular stimulation regimens for IVF: dealing with temporary ovarian resistance. Clinical experience with in vitro oocyte maturation.Complete oogenesis does not occur without follicle formation: an in vitro study of fetal mouse ovaries. Oocyte contributions to embryogenesis in mammals. Genetics of the fertilizing egg. Karl Ernst von Baer and the discovery of the human ovum. Section 4 -Biology of the sperm: Secular changes in male reproductive health. Reproductive toxins affecting the male. Ejaculatory and erectile dysfunctions in infertile men. Sperm retrieval techniques: opportunities and risks. Sperm cell aneuploidy. Y chromosome andsingle gene defects causing male infertility. Alterations and damage of sperm chromatin structure and early embryonic failure. Section 5 - Biology of the embryo and implantation: Transmission of the mitochondrial genome. Cytoplasmic endowment oforganelles other than mitochondria. Embryo metabolism. Stage-specific culture media and reactions of embryos to them. In vitro culture of human blastocysts. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: a 10-year perspective. Clinical experience of a preimplantationgenetic diagnosis at Hammersmith 1989-1998. The receptive endometrium. Is the success of human IVF a matter of developmental biology Quality management in the IVF laboratory. Section 6 - IVF and society: Cultural expectations from