1. History and epidemiology of human fertility<br>Hassan Sallam<br>2. Setting up an ART unit: planning, design, and organization<br>Domenico Baldini, Giorgio Baldini and Isabella Cobuzzi<br>3. Building the laboratory<br>Bianca Bianco<br>4. Work-up of female infertility<br>Giovanni Buzzaccarini, Amerigo Vitagliano and Antonio Simone Laganà<br>5. Work-up of male infertility<br>Luca Boeri, Edoardo Pozzi and Andrea Salonia<br>6. Prothrombotic gene polymorphisms and adverse reproductive outcomes in ART<br>Milan Terzic and Gulzhanat Aimagambetova<br>7. Endocrinological causes of female infertility<br>María José España De Marco, Stella Lancuba, Marta Tesone and Marcos Thomson<br>8. Tubal factor<br>Antoine Watrelot<br>9. Uterine and cervical anomalies<br>Luis Alonso Pacheco<br>10. Uterine fibroids and infertility<br>Veronika Günther, Damaris Freytag and Ibrahim Alkatout<br>11. Endometriosis and infertility<br>Timur Gurgan<br>12. Endocrinological causes of male infertility<br>Alayman Hussein<br>13. Sperm DNA fragmentation: impact on ART outcome<br>Ashok Agarwal<br>14. Male accessory gland infection: diagnosis and treatment<br>Rossella Cannarella, Rosita A. Condorelli, Laura Cimino, Laura M. Mongioì, Michele Compagnone, Federica Barbagallo, Andrea Crafa, Aldo E. Calogero and Sandro La Vignera<br>15. Hormonal and non-hormonal treatment of male infertility<br>Rhianna Davies, Channa N. Jayasena and Suks Minhas<br>16. Surgical management of male infertility and sperm retrieval<br>Nicola Arrighi<br>17. How to choose the appropriate ART technique and counselling about reproductive outcomes<br>Michael Chapman<br>18. Preparation of the couple for the ART technique: necessary and unnecessary tests<br>Andrea Roberto Carosso, Alessandro Ruffa, Bernadette Evangelisti, Noemi Mercaldo, Andrea Garolla, Carlo Foresta, Chiara Benedetto and Alberto Revelli<br>19. Ovulation induction protocols<br>Omar Sefrioui<br>20. Ovarian Stimulation Protocols<br>Basil Tarlatzis and Konstantinos D. afopoulos<br>21. Oocyte retrieval<br>Nina Jančar and Helena Ban Frangez<br>22. Oocyte quality evaluation and cryopreservation<br>Pinar Ozcan, Bulut Varli, Necati Findikli, Murat Basar and Engin Oral <br>23. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome<br>Stefan Palomba<br>24. Sperm quality evaluation and cryopreservation<br>Rhianna Davies, Channa N. Jayasena and Suks Minhas<br>25. In vitro fertilization and embryo culture in time-lapse imaging<br>Alison Campbell, Amy Barrie and Rachel Smith<br>26. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection<br>Gianpiero D. Palermo<br>27. Embryo transfer<br>Pieraldo Inaudi<br>28. Luteal phase support<br>Mariana Miguens, Sergio Papier and Andrea Coscia<br>29. Preimplantation Genetic Testing<br>Sandrine Chamayou<br>30. Embryo quality evaluation and cryopreservation<br>Livia Pellegrini and Mauro Cozzolino<br>31. Frozen–thawed embryo transfer<br>Erlisa Bardhi and Panagiotis Drakopoulos<br>32. Oocyte and sperm donation<br>Pascual Martin, Fernando Sanchez and Juan Tunon<br>33. Recurrent miscarriage<br>William H. Kutteh, Dalal Kojok and Ghina Ghazeeri<br>34. Repeated implantation failures<br>Michail Papapanou and Charalampos Siristatidis<br>35. Gestational carrier<br>Nikos Prapas and Stamatios Petousis<br>36. Female and male fertility preservation in oncology<br>Federico Ferrari, Martina Ratti, Anna Consoli, Filippo Alberto Ferrari, Enrico Sartori and Franco Odicino<br>37. Psychological impact of infertility and ART procedures<br>Helene Mitchell, Wendy Norton and Helene Mitchell<br>38. Risk, safety and outcome monitoring in the IVF Clinic<br>Rossana Di Paola, Angela Cuccarollo and Simone Garzon<br>39. Regulation, data management, informed consent and legal issues for ART<br>Ilaria Soave and Roberto Marci<br>40. Impact of Covid-19 on ART<br>Domenico Carone<br>