Emerging Topics in Reproduction

Douglas T. Carrell, PhD, HCLD, Departments of Surgery (Urology) and Human Genetics, Director of IVF, Andrology and Reproductive Research Laboratories, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USACatherine Racowsky, PhD, HCLD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAPeter N. Schlegel, MD, Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USAAlan H. DeCherney, MD, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

• Part I: Male Infertility.- TESE for Cryptozoospermia with Normal Sperm DNA Fragmentation.- The Argument for Varicocele Repair in Non-Obstructive Azoospermia.- Current and Future Perspectives on Sperm RNAs.- Male Infertility as a Marker of Future Health.- Fertility Preservation in the Male Adolescent Patient.- Part II: Female Infertility.- Advanced Imaging Techniques Used in the Infertile Female.- Treatment of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in the Infertile Female.- Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Female Infertility.- Part III: Assisted Reproductive Technologies.- Is There an Optimum System for Culturing Human Embryos?- Evidence-Based Approaches to Embryo Selection by Morphology and Kinetics.- Part IV: Controversies in Reproductive Medicine.- Is It Good Practice/Ethical to Set a Max BMI Before IVF?- Are We Closer to “Freeze-All” for ART?- Preimplantation Genetic Screening: Not for Everyone.- Should All Patients Undergo Blastocyst Transfer? No.