OBJECTIVE To describe cases of obstetric hemorrhage that have called for selective intra-arterial embolization and the different embolization techniques used. To assess the clinical outcomes and postprocedural fertility. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 27 women with obstetric hemorrhage. In 24 patients, embolization was performed by catheterizing both uterine arteries and in 2 patients only o...

Cryopreservation of embryos and gametes has become an indispensible service for infertility treatment. Vitrification is now a prevalent technique for cryopreservation in assisted reproductive technology (ART) replacing, in many cases, conventional slow cooling methodology. Fertility preservation in female patients has become a very topical issue. Various malignant and nonmalignant diseases have...

Herd fertility is a key factor for the sustainability of cattle farming. However, since the 1980s, fertility in dairy cattle has steadily decreased and has become one of the main causes of culling and cow replacement in developed countries (Lucy, 2001; Barbat et al., 2010). Many studies have been performed in the last decades to investigate the genetic bases of this decline, considering the rep...

Flavonoids are thought to function in the plant stress response and male fertility in some, but not all, species. We examined the effects of a self-fertile chalcone synthase null allele, a, for the effects of heat and light stress on fertilization success and flower production in Ipomoea purpurea. Pollen recipients and pollen donors of both homozygous genotypes exhibit reduced fertilization suc...

Between 1960 and 1990, many East Asian countries experienced remarkable economic growth and rapid demographic change brought on by the onset of a precipitous drop in childbearing. The research summarised in this paper considers whether demographic change played an important role in the region’s economic success and whether fertility decline was a by-product of economic development or a response...

Studies on human fertility genes have identified numerous risk/protective alleles involved in the occurrence of reproductive system diseases causing infertility or subfertility. Investigations we carried out in populations at natural fertility seem to suggest that the clinical relevance that some fertility genes are now acquiring depends on their interaction with contemporary reproductive behav...