The Boston IVF Handbook of Infertility: A Practical Guide for Practitioners Who Care for Infertile Couples

Much-anticipated, filled with in-depth and detailed information, the Boston IVF Handbook on Infertility: A Practical Guide for Practitioners Who Care for Infertile Couples is the premier resource in this field. Based on the gold-standard procedures developed and used at Boston IVF it presents information you will find in no other text on infertility that cover the subject with the scope that this one does.

Authors Drs. Bayer, Alper, and Penzias, principal physicians at Boston IVF, have written The Boston IVF Handbook on Infertility specifically for obstetricians and gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists and infertility nurses. They include a special chapter on preconception care to help gynecologists caring not only for infertile patients but also caring for couples contemplating a pregnancy. In addition to clinical algorithms, history and consent forms and insurance and coding issues, the main chapters cover the work-up, treatment options, success rates, clomiphene citrate, progesterone therapy, methotrexate, counseling, and educational resources.

With the publication of this authoritative, one-of-a-kind volume you will have a comprehensive guide to the important tools designed by the specialists at Boston IVF to aid in the day-to-day management of infertile patients and couples considering pregnancy. It is practical, easy to use, and unquestionably the premier work in its field.


Affiliated with Harvard Medical School, the Boston IVF at The Waltham Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a highly specialized outpatient fertility and in vitro fertilization center recognized as a leader in providing fertility services for couples around the world.