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The American Society for the Study of Sterility Program of Seventeenth Annual Meeting The Americana, Bal Harbour, Fla. April 21-23, 1961* Friday, April 21 Official Greeting and Announcements, S. LEON ISRAEL, President
Male Factors in Infertility Chainnan: PAUL GE'IZOFF The Etiology and Management of Retrograde Ejaculation. CHARLES RIESER The Effect of Varicocelectomy on Male Subfertility. CHARLES CHARNY The Physiology of Spennatogenesis. JULIUS WINER A Study of Normal Human Spennatogenesis and Certain Antispermatogenic Compounds. JOHN MACLEOD (Cornell)
Spermatozoa and Sperm Transport in the Female Chairman: CHARLES STEVENSON Identification of Male- and Female-Producing Spenn. LANDRUM B. SHE'ITLES (Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) Separation of Male- and Female-Producing Spenn. M. J. GORDON (Michigan State) The Immediate Postcoital Test-Recent Infonnation on Transport of Spermatozoa in the Vagina. A. SOBRERO (Margaret Sanger) On the Question of "Cervical Hostility." W. MASTERS (Washington U., St. Louis) Myometrial Participation in Spenn Transport. J. V. KELLY (U.C.L.A.) Postcoital Spenn Migration Through the Female Reproductive Tract. J. P. THIBAULT and H. H. HORNE
Luncheon Seminars Chainnan: ROBERT W. KISTNER >I<
Registration: Thursday, April 20, 3:00-9:00 P.M. 213
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Aspects of Male Infertility What Constitutes an Adequate Examination of Seminal Fluid? JOHN MACLEOD Artificial Insemination: When and How? HERBERT W. HORNE, JR. Diagnosis and Therapy of the Infertile Male. MELVIN TAYMOR
Diagnostic Procedures: Female What Constitutes an Adequate Infertility Work-up? HERBERT H. THOMAS Interpreting the Endometrial Biopsy. DONALD C. McKAy The Postcoital Examination and Fern Test. MAXWELL ROLAND Tubal Insumation: Is It Worthwhile? ALVIN M. SmGLER The Hysterosalpingogram-Uses and Abuses. WILLIAM SWEENEY
Nonsurgical Therapeutic Procedures Hypnosis. RALPH V. AUGUST Thyroid and Allied Substances. KEITH P. RUSSELL Estrogens. ABRAHAM E. RAKOFF Progestins. G. SEEGAR JONES Corticoids. JOSEPH W. GOLIYZIEHER Gonadotrophins. CHARLES LLOYD
Surgical Therapeutic Procedures The Cervix: Cerclage vs. Tracheloplasty. W. J. MULLIGAN The Lower Uterine Segment. ED. C. MANN The Uterine Corpus. ERWIN STRASSMAN The Oviduct. CELSO R. GARCIA The Ovary. LEON ISRAEL
Current and Recurrent Problems Antifertility Agents. EDWARD T. TYLER Genital Abnormalities Following Progestins. HOWARD JONES Threatened and Habitual Abortion. ARTHUR L. HASKINS Status of Hormone Assays. WALTER HERRMANN The Sclerocystic Ovary Syndrome. ROBERT B. GREENBLATT Endometriosis and Infertility. ROGER SCOTT Endometriosis and Infertility. GEORGE E. NORWOOD Controversial Aspects of the "Stein Syndrome." FRANK INGERSOLL Hormonal Evaluation. by Cytologic Methods. JACOBA DENEEF
Immunology and Fertility Chairman: S. J. SEGAL (Population Council, New York) Antigenicity of Spermatozoa. S. KATSH (U. of Colorado Medical School, Dept. of Pharmacology) . Antigenicity of Reproductive-Tract Secretions. A. WElL (Dept. of Pathology, Bronx Hospital, New York) Immunologic Aspects of Human Infertility. EDWARD TYLER, Los Angeles; S. RAO, Bombay; and N. NAHOBOYASKE, Amsterdam Typing of Spermatozoa in Cases of Rape. M. HELPERN and A. WEINER
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Genetics and Infertility Cha irman: FRANCIS INGERSOLL Chromosome Abnormalities as a Causc of Human Infertility. M. A. FERGUSONSMITH, Edinburgh, Scotland Relationship Between Chromosomal Pattern and Sex Determination. O. J. MILLER (Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons)
Saturday, April 22 The Fallopian Tube. I. Physiology and Diagnosis of Tubal Abnormalities Chairman: GEORGEANNA SEEGAR JONES Mechanisms of Ovum Pickup; Attachment of the Ovum to the Follicle after Ovulation in the Rabbit. T. H. CLEWE (U. of Kansas) Influence of the Menstrual Cycle on the Secretion Rate of the Oviduct in the Rhesus Monkey. LOUIGI MASTROIANNI, U. SHAH and R. ABUDI-KARIN (Yale) Pitfalls in Present Methods of Evaluating Tubal Patency. W. SWEENEY (Cornell) The Culdoscope as an Adjunct in the Diagnosis of Tubal Disease. A. DECKER (New York Medical College)
The Fallopian Tube. II. Surgical Management of Tubal Disease Chairman: HERBERT THOMAS Pelvic Adhesions; Etiology and Treatment. C. R. GARCIA and JOHN ROCK, Boston Further Experience with Tuboplastic Procedures. WILLIAM MULLIGAN, Boston
The Squibb Prize Paper of the 1960 Pacific Coast Fertility Society Introduction: ROBERT F. SKEELS, M.D., Los Angeles, Calif., President of the Pacific Coast Fertility Society (1959-1960).
Revaluation of the Significance of the B.B.T. and Vaginal Smears Chairman: EDWARD TYLER The Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of the B.B.T. in Pregnancy. R. VOLLMAN (N.I.H., Bethesda) The Use of Vaginal Smears in Ovulation Detection. G. RILEY (U. of Michigan)
Annual Business Meeting Chairman: S. LEON ISRAEL, President
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Sunday, April 23 Current Reports: The Ovary and Ovum Chairman: M. E. DAVIS Location of Steroidogenesis of C-19 Compounds in the Human Ovary. S. J. BEHRMAN (U. of Michigan) and G. S. DUBOFF Lipexal Stimulation of the Pituitary-Hypothalamic Axis in the Anovulatory Patient, FRANK GIGLIO, Mobile, Ala. The Effect of L.R. on Granulosa Cells in the Rat. R. BLANDAU (U. of Washington)
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The Central Nervous System and Ovulation Chairman: ROBERT RUTHERFORD Recent Advances in our Understanding of C.N.S. Pituitary GonadotropinOvarian Hormone Interrelationships. 1. ROTHCIDLD, Cleveland Psychogenic Factors in Anovulation; A Comprehensive Study of Fifty-Three Patients: 1. Endocrine Aspects. A. RAKOFF (Jefferson Medical College) 2. Psychometric Studies. Z. PIOTROWSKI (Formerly with Rorschach Society ) 3. Psychiatric Evaluation. T. LOFTUS Some Psychiatric and Biochemical Aspects of Ovulatory Failure. C. LLOYD, Syracuse
The Gonadotropins Chairman: MELVIN TAYMOR The Nature of Gonadotropins as They Appear in the Urine. JANET MACARTHUR, Boston The Induction of Ovulation in the Monkey with Human Urinary Gonadotropins. M. SIMPSON (U. of California) and G. VAN WAGENEN (Yale) The Effect of the Gonadotropins on the Ovary. H. A. SALHANICK (U. of Nebraska) Some Antigenic Properties of Human Pituitary Gonadotropin. JOHN BECK, Montreal
Luncheon in Honor of President, S. Leon Israel, 12 :30-2: 15 P.M. Ayerst Lecture The Induction of Ovulation with Human Pituitary Gonadotropin. CARL A. GEMZELL, Uppsala, Sweden
Panel: Selection of Patients for Donor Insemination Moderator: ROBERT WILSON Panelists: SOPIDA KLEEGMAN and ALAN GUTTMACHER
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Miscellaneous Topics
Chairman: J. GEORGE MOORE The Effect of Adoption on Fertility. A LAWRENCE BANKS, Seattle ~ The Eventual Outcome of Pregnancy in Previously Infertile Women. S. LEON I S R A E L ' -