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Psychosocial Testing and Pretreatment of Women for in Vitro Fertilization
Author(s) -
KEMETER PETER,
EDER ANSELM,
SPRINGERKREMSER MARIANNE
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1985.tb37560.x
Subject(s) - infertility , in vitro fertilisation , psychosocial , sterility , embryo transfer , medicine , human fertilization , gynecology , family medicine , psychology , psychiatry , biology , embryo , pregnancy , genetics , anatomy
Thanks to extensive media coverage, both the public, in general, and infertile patients desiring children, in particular, have been alerted to the fascinating prospects of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET). Many infertile couples would do anything to have a child of their own. As a consequence, they have come to attach high hopes to this new method, just as they were hopeful of other methods in the past. The patients’attitudes have thus remained the same. Therefore, we ourselves should continue to bring to bear the whole body of knowledge on the pathogenesis of sterility and infertility as well as their psychosocial background when counseling patients on any new treatment modality. For this reason it would seem appropriate to review some of the results accumulated in an ongoing study of sterility and infertility which is being carried out by the Institute of Reproductive Endocrinology and in Vitro Fertilization in cooperation with several departments of the University of Vienna since 1978. 1–5