ART Treatment Complications


This course outlines the complications of ART Treatment


About this course

  • Detailed explanations

    Detailed overview by Prof. Zeev Shoham of the complications related to ART Treatment

  • Interactive content

    Course broken down into modules and chapters, and supplemented with text, photos, and graphs

  • Expert input

    Course developed by Professor Zeev Shoham - Head of the Fertility & IVF Unit at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel

Course curriculum

  • 1
    Ectopic Pregnancy
    • Introduction
    • Risk Factors Associated with the Development of EUP
    • EUP after ART
    • Risk Factors for EUP after ART
    • Heterotopic Pregnancy following ART
    • Symptoms of EUP
    • Physical examination of EUP
    • Diagnosis & Treatment of EUP
    • References
  • 2
    Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS)
    • Definition
    • Etiology & Pathophysiology
    • Classification
    • Clinical Signs & Laboratory Criteria of OHSS
    • Strategies for Prevention of OHSS
    • Initial Diagnosis & Evaluation
    • Management
    • Hemoconcentration & Fluid Therapy
    • Tense Ascites
    • Life-Threatening Complications of OHSS
    • Summary: Guidelines for Management of Severe OHSS
    • Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome - therapeutic approach

Instructor

Professor Zeev Shoham

Professor Zeev Shoham serves as the head of the Fertility and IVF Unit at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel.

Professor Shoham was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. He received his M.D. degree from the Hadassah Medical Center in 1981. Later completing, his residency at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, and his fellowship in infertility and in vitro fertilization at Tel - Hashomer Hospital and MIDDLESEX Hospital in London, UK.

Since 1988 he has specialized in a wide range of treatments including: Fertility treatments, in vitro fertilization, oocyte retrieval preservation and freezing, donor eggs and sperm, care for women during pregnancy and follow-up and treatment of postmenopausal women.

In 1991 Prof. Shoham received an award from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology for the best scientific research that year in Europe for his work on stimulating sperm production by adding GH to treatment with gonadotropins in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.

Professor Shoham has published over 140 papers in the field of Reproductive Medicine, and his publications had won international awards. In addition, he has contributed chapters to numerous books. He is the editor/ author of the textbook, Female Infertility Therapy: Current Practice (1999), and one of the four editors of the textbook, Assisted Reproductive Techniques, which is at its fourth edition.

Professor Shoham is the co-founder of IVF-Worldwide the most comprehensive website on in-vitro fertilization. Professor Shoham has been organizing internationals medical conferences for the past 18 years and is a lecturer in many conferences in the field.