28th Annual Meeting of ESHRE — SIG Reproductive Endocrinology precongress course “Optimising the IVF Protocol and the Use of Experimental and Adjunctive Therapies”, Istanbul, 6/2012

The 28th annual meeting of ESHRE was held in Istanbul on 1–4 July, with more than 8,000 delegates. The ESHRE annual meeting is the most authoritative source of information on fertility and reproduction; this year more than 1,700 abstracts were submitted from Europe and around the world.

Within the meeting, the Reproductive Endocrinology Special Interest Group organised the precongress course “Optimising the IVF protocol and the use of experimental and adjunctive therapies”. With more than 500 attendees, it was the most highly attended precongress course of the meeting.

Invited lecture:

What is a poor response and how should it be managed?

The persistent — and unfortunately still topical — problem of poor ovarian response and the various strategies that have been proposed to address it formed the subject of this lecture.