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Artificial Insemination
Artificial insemination is a treatment for infertility that involves directly inserting sperm into a woman’s womb.
Artificial inseminationArtificial insemination can be useful in helping couples to conceive where:
- there is a problem with the...
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Assisted Hatching
Assisted hatching is a procedure used to increase the chances of pregnancy. Under normal condition blastocytes perform hatching by getting rid of the surrounding zona pellucide so that they can become implanted into the uterus. However there are...
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Blastocyst Culture and Transfer
The blastocyst culture and day 5 embryo transfer procedure for in vitro fertilization facilitates selection of the best quality embryos for transfer to the uterus of the mother. The concept of embryo quality is a very important one for couples...
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Egg Freezing
Egg Freezing is a technology in which a woman’s eggs are extracted, frozen and then stored. Later on in her life when ready to become pregnant, these eggs can be thawed, fertilized, and transferred to the uterus as embryos.
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Fertility Treatment
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a general term referring to methods used to achieve pregnancy by artificial or partially artificial means. It is reproductive technology used primarily in infertility treatments. Some forms of ART are...
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GIFT
The initials GIFT stand for gamete intra-fallopian transfer (gametes are reproductive cells — eggs and sperm). A by-product of IVF research, the procedure is suitable for women with normal fallopian tubes and is most commonly used to treat...
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In vitro maturation of oocytes (IVM)
IVM is a new procedure that does not require hormone stimulation of the ovaries.
In-vitro Maturation (IVM): . The oocytes are removed before ovulation at an immature stage and are matured in vitro. This technique is suitable especially for...
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Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
The method of ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) is mainly used when the semen analysis is abnormal, i.e. when the sperm count is low, when there is low motility or severe morphological defects. This method is also applied in cases of...
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Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI)
Artificial insemination is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female with the purpose of impregnating the woman using means other than sexual intercourse. Artificial insemination is used to assisted...
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IVF
In Vitro Fertilisation
For all those couples who have been trying in vain to conceive for a year or more, science has brought hope in the form of in vitro fertilisation or IVF. A procedure first successfully attempted in 1978 in England, IVF has...
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Natural Cycle (CONCIVF)
The egg that women produce naturally every month is collected vaginally under ultrasound guidance and inseminated either by Classical IVF or ICSI.
The benefits of CONCIVF are that:
(i) women do not have to undergo ovarian stimulation with...
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Ovulation Induction
Ovulation induction medications, often referred to as fertility drugs, are used to stimulate the follicles in your ovaries resulting in the production of multiple eggs in one cycle. The medications also control the time that you release the eggs,...
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Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening (PGD / PGS)
This technique is used to select healthy embryos that do not carry genetic diseases which are able to be tested for such as thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, etc BEFORE they are transferred to the uterus. The techniques used for...
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Sperm Analysis with Sperm Class Analyser (SCA)
The SCA is a computer based sperm analysis software which provides fast, accurate and objectively repeatable results. This level of accuracy would be impossible to attain using traditional (subjective) methods. The software generates objective...
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Stimulated Cycles
The ovaries are stimulated to produce eggs with the use of injectable hormones called Gonadotrophins.
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Testicular / Epididymal Sperm Aspiration
Testiculsr/Epididymal sperm aspiration refers to the removal of sperm directly from the testis or the epididymis using a needle for aspiration. This treatment is usually associated with sperm injection into the oocyte (ICSI).
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Vitrification
Vitrification (also known as Cryopreservation) is a process which consists of taking cells or whole tissues and preserving them by cooling them down to low temperatures. In doing so, any biological activity is ultimately stopped thereby...
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