In Vitro Fertilisation treatment can be suggested by gynaecologist to persons having difficulty conceiving a child if it suits for them.We can help you find an effective and affordable IVF solution. We cooperate with specialists that have exceptional statistically results. We help you select the hospital that you most desire. We assist you through out the entire IVF treatment procedure.
What is In Vitro Fertilisation?
In Vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the woman's womb, in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed. The process involves hormonally controlling the ovulatory process, removing ova (eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid medium. The fertilised egg (zygotes) is then transferred to the patient's uterus with the intent to establish a successful pregnancy
Who might benefit?
IVF might help where there is a known infertility problem with one or both partners, for example if the female partner has blocked or damaged fallopian tubes, or there is a mild problem with the male partner’s sperm. It is also used where no cause has been found for an inability to conceive, especially in couples that have been trying for more than three years.
How long will the treatment last?
One cycle of IVF takes four to six weeks to complete. You and your partner can expect to spend about half a day at your clinic for the egg retrieval and fertilisation procedures. You'll go back two to three days later for the embryos to be transferred to your uterus.
What's the success rate?
Outcomes vary greatly depending on your particular fertility problem and more importantly, on your age. The younger you are the healthier your eggs usually are, and the higher your chances of success with IVF, compared to a one in ten chance of success for women over 40. If you have been pregnant or had a baby before then your chances of success are also greater.
Women who are within a healthy weight range (body mass index between 19 and 30) are also more likely to be successful. If you are overweight you can increase your chances of success by losing some weight before you start treatment.
Aside from these issues, the national average success rate is around 30 pecent. This represents your average chance of delivering a healthy baby for each cycle of treatment. Experts agree that IVF is unlikely to work if it hasn't done so by the third attempt.
ZAH: Assisted Zona Hatching
Delicately drilling the outer envelope surrounding the embryo with a low power YAG LASER, facilitating implantation in the uterus for those women with repeated implantation failure.
ICSI: Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
Injecting a single sperm cell into the ovum using a highly sophsticated inverted microscope. The introduction of the ICSI technology has enabled high fertilization rates in cases previously considered beyond hope.
MESA: Microscopic Epididymal Sperm Aspiration and Test: Testicular Sperm Extraction
Aspiration and extraction of minute amounts of sperm cells directly from the testis to be used in the ICSI technique in cases of lack of sperm cells in the ejaculate.
PESA: Percutaneous Sperm Aspiration
A non-surgical method of multi-focal aspiration of the testis, facilitating the search for sperm cells in cases where no spermatozoa are detected in the ejaculate e.g azoospermia.
ELECTRO-EJACULATION
Obtaining sperm using electrical stimulation in men who are unable to ejaculate spontaneously due to spinal cord injuries, certain systemic diseases or psychological problems
SPERM DONATION
Couples in the program who need sperm donation are supplied with cryo-preserved donor sperm from a university affiliated sperm bank in strict accordance with government regulations.
CRYO-PRESERVATION
Freezing and storing remaining embryos for future implantation. An obvious benefit of cryo-preservation is the chance of achieving pregnancy with frozen embryos during a later cycle without the cost and inconvenience of additional ovum-retrival. Cryo-preservation of sperm facilitates treatment when the male partner is absent for reasons such as travel.
ED: EGG DONATION
Providing a donor's egg service to women unable to conceive from thier own ova. The HMC unit enjoys a 45% pregnancy rate per ED and has achieved among the largest number of ED births published in scientific literature to date.
International IVF Referral Center
Utilizing the diverse methods available today, the HMC-IVF unit achieves a pregnancy rate comparable with the best results recorded in the world today. The collaboration between doctors, embryologists and nurses ensures attentions to detail at every step of the way and optimizing the chance of delivering a healthy baby following treatment at HMC.
Step by step, here's what you'll typically experience while trying to conceive a child with in vitro fertilization.
1. The intake interview.
If initial fertility treatments such as fertility drugs or surgery fail and you decide to move forward with IVF, your ob/gyn will refer you to a reproductive endocrinologist. During your initial meeting with the doctor, you'll discuss your medical and fertility history, and that of your partner, to determine which treatment protocols will work best for you, as well as what you can do to improve the odds of a healthy birth.
2. Preliminary tests and talks.
You'll undergo ultrasound and blood tests to determine the number and quality of your eggs. You'll also meet with a nurse to learn how to self administer fertility drugs, a financial counselor to work out payment, and a psychologist to discuss coping with any stress that might arise.
3. Drugs to induce egg growth.
To stimulate your follicles to grow as many eggs as possible during your cycle, for about two weeks you'll give yourself one to three daily injections of fertility medications (such as GonalF, a folliclestimulating hormone, and Repronex, a luteinizing hormone) in your thigh or stomach. Either before your cycle or midway through, you'll also inject a gonadotropinreleasing hormone (GnRH) drug such as Lupron, which prevents you from ovulating too early. Around day 12, you'll inject the drug human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to stimulate ovulation and precisely time the final burst of egg growth. During these two weeks, you'll visit the clinic about five times for blood and ultrasound tests to monitor your progress.
4. Egg harvesting
In a carefully targeted window of time — shortly before doctors calculate that your eggs will be released through the fallopian tubes during ovulation — you'll be heavily sedated and, using ultrasound as a guide, your doctor will pull eggs out of your ovaries with a hollow needle inserted through the wall of the vagina. In the meantime, your partner, in a nearby room, will ejaculate into a cup to obtain sperm, which the lab will then quickly process to extract the most robust ones. The sperm and eggs are then mixed together in an incubator so insemination can occur. If necessary — for instance, when sperm count is low or the sperm are having difficulty penetrating the egg — the lab embryologist might also perform intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a procedure in which sperm are injected directly into an egg. If you are over 40 or a previous IVF attempt failed, he might also puncture the outer shell of a resulting embryo shortly before transferring it into the uterus so it can implant itself more easily, a process called assisted hatching.
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5. Embryo transfer
Three days after harvesting your eggs, your doctor will use a thin catheter to insert two or three embryos into your uterus via the vagina. "This is a painless procedure that feels like a Pap smear," explains Mark Perloe, M.D., medical director at Georgia Reproductive Specialists in Atlanta. If genetic diseases are a concern, this step might occur on day five, after lab biopsies have been performed to select the healthiest embryos.
6. The outcome
Your partner (or a friend or a family member) will give you daily injections of progesterone, a hormone that aids implantation, in the buttocks. In two weeks, you'll take a pregnancy test at the clinic; someone there will call to give you the results.
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