Main description:

To many patients and indeed health care professionals, IVF is the ultimate treatment for infertility. However in many cases IVF is not feasible and may not be indicated. IVF remains a largely inefficient procedure that often does not succeed in a achieving a pregnancy.

There remains a strong place for other fertility interventions, many of them surgical in nature. Surgical interventions can be used as a stand-alone fertility treatment or as an adjuvant treatment used in conjunction with other assisted conception treatments. Despite the continuing use of such techniques by reproductive surgeons, there remains a clear gap in the literature regarding resources to supplement formal training in the field or to provide a reference for established and aspiring practitioners.

Contents:

Part I. Tubal Factor Unfertility.- 1. Distal Tubal Disease.- 2. Proximal Tubal Disease.- Part II. Endometriosis.- 3. Endometriosis and Infertility.- 4. Endometrioma and Infertility: Principles and Techniques of Management.- 5. The Impact of Endometrioma and its Surgical Treatment on Ovarian Reserve and Reproductive Performance.- Part III. The Ovary.- 6. Laparoscopic Ovarian Drilling.- 7. Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation.- Part IV. Uterine Fibroids.- 8. Fibroids and Infertility: Principles and Techniques of Management.- 9. Submucous Fibroids and Infertility.- 10. The Management of Intramural Fibroids in Women with Infertility.- 11. Abdominal Myomectomy.- 12. Principles and Techniques of Laparoscopic Myomectomy.- 13. Infertility and Uterine Artery Embolisation.- Part V. Obesity and Reproductive Surgery.- 14. Laparoscopy in the Obese Patient.- 15. Bariatric Surgery.- Part VI. Adhesions.- 16. Adhesions: Effects on Fertility and Pervention.- 17. Prevention of Intrauterine Adhesions.- Part VII. The Uterine Cavity and Endometrium.- 18. Uterine Anomalies.- 19. Principles of Hysteroscopic Surgery.- 20. Uterine Septum.- 21. Endometrial Polyps and Infertility.- 22. Local Endometrial Trauma: A Treatment Strategy to Improve Implantation Rates.- Part VIII. Surgical Management of Male Infertility.- 23. Surgical Management of Male Infertility.