ASRM 2016 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah this year.
The highlights of the conference included a Professor Carlos Simon oral presentation “Prospective, Randomized Study of the Endometrial Receptivity Analysis (ERA) Test in the Infertility Work-Up to Guide Personalized Embryo Transfer Versus Fresh Transfer or Deferred Embryo Transfer”, this was awarded the SREI (Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) and Oak Clinic is participatingin this study.
Oak Clinic had a great response to our poster presentation, “Can the Location of a trophectoderm biopsy contribute to human blastocyst development” (Takano T, MSc) and many embryologists and clinicians were in interested by the expansion rate improving when a biopsy was taken near the inner cell mass.
Other seminars that were of interest to us were; “Endometrial Gene Expression of Women with Recurrent Pregnancy Losses and Infertility” (Li Wu), “Oocytes with Impaired Meiotic Maturation Contain an Increased Load of Mutated Mitochondrial DNA” (Jason Kofinas) and “Low Level Mosaicism: Incidence and Implications on Clinical Pregnancies” (Dawn Kelk), she talked about how low level mosaic embryos and abnormal morphology can still result in live births.
As for the latest technology or equipment, there was a selection of new mediums for embryo culture, adapted designs for embryo transfer catheters, new protocols for sperm DNA fragmentation tests, non-invasive ERA (Endometrium Receptivity Array) test being developed, and a non-invasive PGS technique using embryo culture medium. All of which Oak Clinic will evaluate and implement new protocols should the results improve fertility care for our patients.