Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 5 , Pages 1520-1524 , November 2009

International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology (ICMART) and the World Health Organization (WHO) revised glossary of ART terminology, 2009∗

  • F. Zegers-Hochschild

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Reproductive Medicine, Clinicas las Condes, Santiago, Chile
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: F. Zegers-Hochschild, Unit of Reproductive Medicine, Clinica las Condes, Lo Fontecilla, 441, Santiago, Chile (FAX: 56-2-6108167).
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  • G.D. Adamson

      Affiliations

    • Fertility Physicians of Northern California, Palo Alto and San Jose, California
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  • J. de Mouzon

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U822, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre Cedex, Paris, France
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  • O. Ishihara

      Affiliations

    • Saitama Medical University Hospital, Moroyama, Saitana, Japan
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  • R. Mansour

      Affiliations

    • Cairo, Egypt
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  • K. Nygren

      Affiliations

    • IVF Unit, Sophiahemmet Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • E. Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Perinatal and Reproductive Epidemiology and Research Unit, School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • S. Vanderpoel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Health and Research and the Special Program of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • ICMART and WHO

Received 9 September 2009 ,Revised 9 September 2009 ,Accepted 9 September 2009.

References 

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  2. de Mouzon J, Lancaster P, Nygren KG, Sullivan E, Zegers-Hochschild F, et al.; International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology. World collaborative report on in-vitro fertilization, 2004. Hum Reprod. In press.
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  5. Zegers-Hochschild F, Nygren KG, Adamson GD, de Mouzon J, Lancaster P, Mansour R, et al. The International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ICMART) glossary on ART terminology. Fertil Steril. 2006;86:16–19
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  7. International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology. The ICMART glossary. Current practices and controversies in assisted reproduction. Report of a WHO meeting. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2002;xix–xxi

 F.Z.-H. has nothing to disclose. G.D.A. has nothing to disclose. J.d.M. has nothing to disclose. O.I. has nothing to disclose. R.M. has nothing to disclose. K.N. has nothing to disclose. E.S. has nothing to disclose. S.V. has nothing to disclose.

 The International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology receives funding from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, the Fertility Society of Australia, the Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction, the Japan Fertility Society, and the Middle East Fertility Society.

 This glossary is simultaneously published in Human Reproduction (Vol. 24, Iss. 11).

PII: S0015-0282(09)03688-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.009

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 5 , Pages 1520-1524 , November 2009

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