**Meet the editor**

Michael Kamrava, M.D., earned a Bachelor of Science in physiology with high honors from University of Illinois, USA, and graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in 1976 with honors in Endocrinology. Following a residency in OB/GYN, he finished a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard medical school, Boston, MA. He

has served at the faculty position and been involved with teaching resident and medical school students at UCLA. He was the principal investigator on the use of pulsatile subcutaneous GnRH in ovulation induction. He has been on the editorial staff of different national and international scientific journals, and has authored and co-authored many scientific journal articles. In addition, he has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international talks and conferences and has conducted international workshops. He was awarded the "Golden Telescope" for introducing the SEED technique for embryo implantation..

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Differential Diagnosis of Ectopic** 

**Part 2 Causes of Ectopic Pregnancy 11** 

Chapter 2 **Tubal Damage, Infertility and Tubal** 

**Part 1 Epidemiology, Morbidity and Mortality 1** 

Vasileios Liberis and Georgios Maroulis

Chapter 3 **Ectopic Pregnancy and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Systematic Review 45** 

Angelos Evangelou and Ioannis P. Kosmas

M.M. Kamrava, L. Tran and J.L. Hall

Chapter 5 **Ectopic Pregnancy Following Reconstructive,** 

Cordula Schippert, Philipp Soergel and Guillermo-José Garcia-Rocha

Chapter 6 **Persistent Ectopic Pregnancy After Laparoscopic Linear Salpingostomy for Tubal Pregnancy:** 

**Prevention and Early Detection 97** 

Shigeo Akira, Takashi Abe and Toshiyuki Takeshita

**Pregnancy - Morbidity and Mortality 3** 

**Ectopic Pregnancy:** *Chlamydia trachomatis*  **and Other Microbial Aetiologies 13**  Louise M. Hafner and Elise S. Pelzer

Panagiotis Tsikouras, Marina Dimitraki, Alexandros Ammari, Sofia Bouchlariotou, Stefanos Zervoudis, Panagiotis Oikonomidis, Constantinos Zakas, Theodoros Mylonas, Anastasios Liberis,

Anastasia Velalopoulou, Dimitrios Peschos, Mynbaev Ospan,

Tsirkas Panagiotis, Spyridon Karkabounas, Vicky Kalfakakou,

**Organ-Preserving Microsurgery in Tubal Infertility 87** 

Eliseeva Marina, Ioannis Verginadis, Yannis Simos,

Chapter 4 **Hysteroscopic Endometrial Embryo Delivery (HEED) 79** 
