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