Reza Omani Samani

[ 1 ] - Development and Validation of Attitude toward Gestational Surrogacy Scale in Iranian Infertile Couples

Objective Surrogacy is one of the most challenging infertility treatments engaging ethical, psychological and social issues. Attitudes survey plays an important role to disclosure variant aspects of surrogacy, to help meeting legislative gaps and ambiguities, and to convert controversial dimensions surrounding surrogacy to a normative concept that eliminates stigma. The aim of this study is to ...

[ 2 ] - Assisted Reproductive Technology in Iran: The First National Report on Centers, 2011

Objective Due to the worldwide increase in infertility, it is both necessary and important to have assisted reproductive technology (ART) registries. In Iran, donation and surrogacy programs are approved by decrees from religious scholars. ART has been used since 1984 in Iran and the first Iranian infant conceived by gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT) was born in 1989. This report, however,...

[ 3 ] - Psychometric Properties of The Persian Version of The Prenatal Attachment Inventory in Pregnant Iranian Women

Objective In 1993, Muller developed the Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI) which has been used widely in many studies and translated into several languages. The current study aimed to translate the PAI into Persian, assess the underlying structure of the PAI, and the appropriateness of the one-factor solution proposed by Muller. MaterialsAndMethods In this cross-sectional study, we recruited a...

[ 4 ] - Development of A Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Oocyte Donation

Background To our knowledge, there is no valid and comprehensive questionnaire that considers attitude toward oocyte donation (OD). Therefore this study has aimed to design and develop a tool entitled attitude toward donation-oocyte (ATOD-O) to measure attitude toward OD. MaterialsAndMethods This methodological, qualitative research was undertaken on 15 infertile cases. In addition, we performe...

[ 5 ] - Diagnostic Accuracy of Transvaginal Sonography in Infertile Patients with Endometrial Polyps

Background To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal sonography (TVS) in infertile patients and compare its results with hysteroscopy as the gold standard. MaterialsAndMethods A total of 679 infertile women who underwent both TVS and diagnostic hysteroscopy were retrospectively investigated. TVS was performed in the mid-follicular phase (days 5-8) of their cycles. Sensitivity specific...

[ 6 ] - Access to Fertility Treatments for Homosexual and Unmarried Persons, through Iranian Law and Islamic Perspective

Background A family traditionally consisted of a married man, his wife, and their children. The new reproductive technologies including use of the third party as egg, sperm and embryo donation and also surrogacy have changed the traditional meanings of lineage, ancestry and family. The increasing number of lesbians and gays in addition to single women requesting fertility treatment from IVF cen...