[The role of fertilization in vitro in the treatment of infertility].

Artificial insemination presents of one broadly accepted methods of assisted reproduction. Indicative spheres for the healing of sterility by this method are permanently outspreading. Its primary application has been induced due to irreparable damages of oviducts but the indications for its use have been expanded in both women and men. One third of the total number of sterile married couples has the need for some of existing methods for assisted reproduction. Micromanipulative techniques of artificial insemination have practically solved all until recently unbridgeable difficulties in the treatment of marital sterility caused by man. Artificial insemination presents a treatment methodology tightly connected with a series of ethical, social and legal problems which are of great interest for the society also.