1. History and epidemiology of human fertilityHassan Sallam2. Setting up an ART unit: planning, design, and organizationDomenico Baldini, Giorgio Baldini and Isabella Cobuzzi3. Building the laboratoryBianca Bianco4. Work-up of female infertilityGiovanni Buzzaccarini, Amerigo Vitagliano and Antonio Simone Laganà5. Work-up of male infertilityLuca Boeri, Edoardo Pozzi and Andrea Salonia6. Prothrombotic gene polymorphisms and adverse reproductive outcomes in ARTMilan Terzic and Gulzhanat Aimagambetova7. Endocrinological causes of female infertilityMaría José España De Marco, Stella Lancuba, Marta Tesone and Marcos Thomson8. Tubal factorAntoine Watrelot9. Uterine and cervical anomaliesLuis Alonso Pacheco10. Uterine fibroids and infertilityVeronika Günther, Damaris Freytag and Ibrahim Alkatout11. Endometriosis and infertilityTimur Gurgan12. Endocrinological causes of male infertilityAlayman Hussein13. Sperm DNA fragmentation: impact on ART outcomeAshok Agarwal14. Male accessory gland infection: diagnosis and treatmentRossella Cannarella, Rosita A. Condorelli, Laura Cimino, Laura M. Mongioì, Michele Compagnone, Federica Barbagallo, Andrea Crafa, Aldo E. Calogero and Sandro La Vignera15. Hormonal and non-hormonal treatment of male infertilityRhianna Davies, Channa N. Jayasena and Suks Minhas16. Surgical management of male infertility and sperm retrievalNicola Arrighi17. How to choose the appropriate ART technique and counselling about reproductive outcomesMichael Chapman18. Preparation of the couple for the ART technique: necessary and unnecessary testsAndrea Roberto Carosso, Alessandro Ruffa, Bernadette Evangelisti, Noemi Mercaldo, Andrea Garolla, Carlo Foresta, Chiara Benedetto and Alberto Revelli19. Ovulation induction protocolsOmar Sefrioui20. Ovarian Stimulation ProtocolsBasil Tarlatzis and Konstantinos D. afopoulos21. Oocyte retrievalNina Jancar and Helena Ban Frangez22. Oocyte quality evaluation and cryopreservationPinar Ozcan, Bulut Varli, Necati Findikli, Murat Basar and Engin Oral 23. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndromeStefan Palomba24. Sperm quality evaluation and cryopreservationRhianna Davies, Channa N. Jayasena and Suks Minhas25. In vitro fertilization and embryo culture in time-lapse imagingAlison Campbell, Amy Barrie and Rachel Smith26. Intracytoplasmic Sperm InjectionGianpiero D. Palermo27. Embryo transferPieraldo Inaudi28. Luteal phase supportMariana Miguens, Sergio Papier and Andrea Coscia29. Preimplantation Genetic TestingSandrine Chamayou30. Embryo quality evaluation and cryopreservationLivia Pellegrini and Mauro Cozzolino31. Frozen-thawed embryo transferErlisa Bardhi and Panagiotis Drakopoulos32. Oocyte and sperm donationPascual Martin, Fernando Sanchez and Juan Tunon33. Recurrent miscarriageWilliam H. Kutteh, Dalal Kojok and Ghina Ghazeeri34. Repeated implantation failuresMichail Papapanou and Charalampos Siristatidis35. Gestational carrierNikos Prapas and Stamatios Petousis36. Female and male fertility preservation in oncologyFederico Ferrari, Martina Ratti, Anna Consoli, Filippo Alberto Ferrari, Enrico Sartori and Franco Odicino37. Psychological impact of infertility and ART proceduresHelene Mitchell, Wendy Norton and Helene Mitchell38. Risk, safety and outcome monitoring in the IVF ClinicRossana Di Paola, Angela Cuccarollo and Simone Garzon39. Regulation, data management, informed consent and legal issues for ARTIlaria Soave and Roberto Marci40. Impact of Covid-19 on ARTDomenico Carone