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COURSE 14
Sunday, 14 June I Room: Auditorium 3 (FIL - Meeting Centre) The ABC of infertility management revisited
Organised by the Middle East Fertility Society
COURSE COORDINATORS: Johnny Awwad (Lebanon) and Mohammad Aboulghar (Egypt) COURSE TYPE: Basic and advanced
COURSE DESCRIPTION: While most advances in the field of human reproduction have focused on reproductive technologies, much less has been vested in the basic management of infertility. Many related practices remain as an old heritage of the past, without ever being revisited on the basis of emerging evidence.
The process of counselling any subfertile couple involves the following:
• A diagnostic assessment plan
• A pre-intervention conception prognosis estimate
• A proposed intervention with improved conception estimate
The final management of subfertility is subject to a shared patient-physician decision. The counseling process should therefore take into account the couple’s sense of urgency as it relates to personal choice, culture and/or beliefs. A clear knowledge of the conception prognosis estimates pre- and post- proposed intervention is therefore essential for proper decision-making on the basis of sound risk-benefit and cost effectiveness analysis.
This pre-congress course will discuss some of these parameters from an evidence-based perspective for the purpose of establishing an updated platform for infertility management more reflective of the current status of the evidence.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
• Reproductive endocrinologists and fertility specialists
• Biologists involved in assisted reproductive technologies
• General gynaecologists
• Infertility nurses
• Policy regulators and representatives of third party stakeholders
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES: At the completion of this pre-congress course, participants should
be able to:
• Re-define infertility in relation to women’s reproductive characteristics
• Re-explore the benefits of simple ovulation monitoring and timed intercourse in the context of subfertility
• Understand to what extent ovarian reserve testing may influence natural conception
• Critically assess whether laparoscopy, endometrial biopsy and semen mucus interaction testing should remain an
essential component of every subfertility work-up
• Understand to what extent an abnormal semen analysis, the presence of anti-sperm antibodies and varicoceles may
affect natural conception in a couple with subfertility
• Determine optimal ovulation protocols to improve outcome in subfertile couples
• Critically evaluate whether intrauterine insemination should remain the bridge between ovulation induction and
assisted reproduction
• Design a fertility management algorithm and a fertility counselling platform for subfertile couples on the basis of
the above
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