Reproductive biomedicine online
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Reprod. Biomed. Online · Mar 2010
The Italian Constitutional Court modifies Italian legislation on assisted reproduction technology.
On 8 May 2009, the Italian Constitutional Court declared, at least in part, that the law regulating assisted reproduction technology in Italy (Law 40/04) is unconstitutional. The most important theoretical point made by the Court is that the law does not provide unlimited protection to embryos, since it admits that some of them may not produce a viable fetus. ⋯ At present, the situation is not clear and, theoretically, requires a new intervention by Parliament. This, however, is unlikely.
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Reprod. Biomed. Online · Mar 2010
See-and-treat outpatient hysteroscopy: an analysis of 1109 examinations.
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient hysteroscopy. Data were collected prospectively from 1109 consecutive hysteroscopy examinations. The main outcome measure was success and failure of diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient hysteroscopy examination. ⋯ Of these two groups, respectively, 285/425 (67.1%) and 23/142 (16.2%) subjects had complete polyp and fibroid resection in the outpatient setting and 116/425 (27.3%) and 63/142 (44.4%) underwent polyp and fibroid resection under general anaesthesia. In conclusion, diagnostic and therapeutic hysteroscopy is feasible and highly successful in an outpatient setting. The majority of subjects with endometrial polyps and intrauterine adhesions are amenable to a see-and-treat approach.