Preconception

• Genetics and Conception
• Lifestyle and Conception
• Preconceptual Counselling

Preparing the High-Risk Patient

• The Patient with Renal Disease
• The Patient with an Organ Transplant
• The Patient with Hypertension
• The Patient with Cardiac Disease
• The Patient with Thyroid Disease
• The Patient with Diabetes
• The Patient with Epilepsy
• The Patient with Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorders
• The Patient with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• The Patient with HIV
• The Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
• The Patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• The Patient with Prolactinoma
• The Patient at Risk of Severe Mental Illness
• The Patient with Myotonic Dystrophy

Achieving Pregnancy

• How to Conceive: Evidence Based Fertility Investigation
• The Anovulatory Patient
• The Patient with Endometriosis
• The Patient with Poor Sperm Quality
• The Patient with Tubal Disease
• The Couple with Unexplained Infertility
• The Patient from the Developing World
• Older Woman Wishing to Conceive
• Psychological Aspects of Fertility Therapy
• Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis
• The Luteal Phase
• Implantation Failure

Management of Early Pregnancy

• Early Placental Development
• The Immunology of Early Pregnancy
• Mechanisms and Nomenclature of Early Pregnancy Loss
• Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Heritable Thrombophilia and Early Pregnancy Loss
• Ultrasound in Early Pregnancy
• Evidence Based Investigation and Management of Miscarriage
• Ectopic Pregnancy after Fertility Treatment
• Molar Pregnancy
• Multiple Pregnancy
• Cervical Cerclage and Pregnancy Loss
• The IVF Pregnancy: High Risk Management?

• Nicholas Macklon, Professor of Infertility and Periconceptional Medicine and Head of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands: his previous publications include IVF in the Medically Complicated Patient (Informa 2005).
• Ian Greer, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
• Eric Steegers, Erasmuc Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands