Published in Human Reproduction, Volume 13, Supplement 1, 1998 There no longer seem to be any categories of male factor infertility that cannot be treated with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Even for men with azoospermia caused either by obstruction or by germinal failure, ICSI may be performed successfully. The only failures will be in azoospermic […]
R. Homburg, F. van der Veen, and S. J. Silber Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ashkelon, Israel; and St. Louis, Missouri Fertility and Sterility © 2008 American Society for Reproductive Medicine The techniques of vitrification of oocytes and the subsequent warming process being used today are now producing results far superior to the results that are obtained […]
1Claus Yding Andersen, 2Sherman J. Silber, 3Stinne Holm Berghold, 4Jan Stener Jorgensen, 5Erik Ernst 1 Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, The Juliane Marie Centre for Women, Children and Reproduction, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2 Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital, 224 South Woods Mill […]
JACQUES DONNEZ1, SHERMAN SILBER2, CLAUS YDING ANDERSEN3, ISABELLE DEMEESTERE4, PASCAL PIVER5, DROR MEIROW6, ANTONIO PELLICER7 & MARIE-MADELEINE DOLMANS1 1Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Department of Gynecology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, 1200 Brussels, Belgium, 2Infertility Center of St Louis at St Luke’s Hospital, St Louis, MO 6301, USA, 3Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, […]
Miracle baby: Infertility Center helps paraplegic become a happy father again By Roger Schlueter, Belleville News-Democrat Now that there’s talk of even human cloning, some might find the term “miracle baby” a bit passé. Not Ken and Lori Kreher. As tiny 2-week-old Blake Edward Kreher slept blissfully in his mother’s arms one recent afternoon, “miracle” […]
Sherman J. Silber, MD; Mark P. Connolly, MHE; Michael S. Pollard, PhD; Stijn Hoorens, MSc; Brian R. Kaplan, MD; and Selwyn P. Oskowitz, MD A Lifetime Tax Calculation – The American Journal of Managed CareSeptember 2008 Objective: To evaluate whether lifetime future net tax revenues from an in vitro fertilization (IVF)-conceived child are substantial enough […]
Human Reproduction vol. 13 no. 3 pp. 509-523, 1998Sherman J. Silber and Larry Johnson Tiny numbers of spermatozoa can be extracted from an extensive testis biopsy and be used successfully for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in 60% of cases of nonobstructive azoospermia caused by testicular failure (e.g. maturation arrest, Sertoli cell only, cryptorchid atrophy, postchemotherapy, […]
Motherhood At Mid-Life — A Medical and Ethical Dilema St. Louis Times, July 1997 Much of the world was shocked this past May when news reports out of California unraveled the details of a 63-year-old woman, Arceli Keh, who gave birth to a healthy baby. She is believed to be the world’s oldest new mom. […]
Physicians PracticeMarch 2007 The Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital has a national reputation for excellence primarily because they have brought innovation and advancement to the field of infertility treatment. Led by Sherman Silber, MD, the Infertility Center of St. Louis has pioneered a number of methods to combat infertility that have […]
Noriko Kagawa1,3, Sherman Silber2, Masashige Kuwayama1 1Advanced Medical Research Institute of Fertility, Tokyo , Japan; 2Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO; 3Correspondence: e-mail: n-kagawa@towako-kato.com Reproductive BioMedicine OnlineFebruary 24, 2009Vol 18. No 4. 2009, pg 568-577 ABSTRACT Ovariectomy and ovarian tissue cryopreservation has the potential to preserve the natural fertility […]
CF Lifeby Janis Kelly, editor of CF Life Men with cystic fibrosis (CF) are known to be sterile, but a new procedure now allows most to become fathers, according to Sherman J. Silber, MD, Director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis (Missouri). Most men with CF produce perfectly good sperm. The problem is that the […]
By Philippa Jawando-WilliamsStretford Grammar SchoolManchester, England The Przewalski’s horse is the last remaining species of wild horse and is native to Mongolia. The conservation status of the Przewalski’s horse is critically endangered (ICUN 3.1) (1), and there are many reasons for this including loss of habitat and reduced gene diversity. Loss of habitat meant that […]