Manual of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection in Human Assisted Reproduction

Dr. Gianpiero D. Palermo is the pioneer of the ICSI technique, now the most utilized assisted reproductive technology worldwide. He is an endowed Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is the Director of Andrology and Assisted Fertilization and a Clinical Attending in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He has been invited to speak internationally and has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 30 book chapters, and edited a number of books. Dr Palermo's contributions to the field of reproductive medicine have also earned him prestigious awards from numerous international societies and universities. Dr. Nagy is currently the Scientific and Laboratory Director at Reproductive Biology Associates, Atlanta, USA. He obtained his PhD at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) on gamete micromanipulation/ICSI. Dr. Nagy has been invited speaker over two hundred international congresses all over the world and he has been frequently interviewed by public media. Dr. Nagy is member and board member of several national and international professional societies. Dr. Nagy is author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications, including several dozens of book chapters and five books.

• Foreword Zev Rosenwaks; 1. In-vitro fertilization and micromanipulation: The history that changed the treatment of male factor infertility Jacques Cohen; 2. Development of ICSI in human assisted reproduction Stephanie Cheung, Alessandra Parrella, Philip Xie, Sherina Lawrence, Mounia Haddad, Derek Keating, Zev Rosenwaks and Gianpiero D. Palermo; 3. Current ICSI applications and clinical outcomes Derek Keating, Stephanie Cheung, Philip Xie, June Wang, Zev Rosenwaks and Gianpiero D. Palermo; 4. Rescue ICSI of IVF failed-fertilized oocytes Carly Barber, Vivian Nguyen, Alexandrea Ramsey and Zsolt Peter Nagy; 5. High-magnification sperm selection before ICSI Pierre Vanderzwalmen, Barbara Wirleitner, Guy Cassuto, Romain Imbert and Maximillian Murtinger; 6. Laser-assisted ICSI Roberta Maggiulli, Simona Alfano, Erminia Alviggi, Gemma Fabozzi, Danilo Cimadomo, Filippo Maria Ubaldi and Laura Rienzi; 7. Piezo: The add-on to standardize ICSI procedure Tetsunori Mukaida, Kenichiro Hiraoka, Hideaki Watanabe, Kiyotaka Kawai and Csaba Pribenszky; 8. Artificial oocyte activation after ICSI Thomas Ebner; 9. Health of children born after Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injections (ICSI) Shahad Sabti and Alastair G. Sutcliffe; 10. Examining the safety of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) using animal models Laura Hewitson; 11. Cellular and molecular events after ICSI in clinically relevant animal models Lauren Hamilton, Richard J. Oko and Peter Sutovsky; 12. Micromanipulation, microinjection microscopes and systems for ICSI Steven D. Fleming; 13. Automation techniques and systems for ICSI Changsheng Dai, Zhuoran Zhang, Guanqiao Shan and Yu Sun; 14. Germline nuclear transfer technology to overcome mitochondrial diseases and female infertility Mao-Xing Tang, Annekatrien Boel, Paul Couke and Björn Heindryckx; 15. Nuclear transfer technology and its use in reproductive medicine Pasqualino Loi, Marta Czernik, Luca Palazzese, Pier Augusto Scapolo, Helena Fulka and Josef Fulka Jr; 16. The prospects of infertility treatment using 'artificial' eggs Katsuhiko Hayashi; Index.