Персонализирани лечения за плодовитост IVF

What is an IVF Treatment?

Infertility is defined as an inability to achieve a pregnancy within one year despite having regular unprotected sexual intercourse. The diagnosis has to be made by a gynecologist specialized in assisted reproductive technologies (ART). However, main reasons are ovulatory dysfunctions, poor ovarian reserve, advanced maternal age or male factors such low sperm count or poor sperm quality. 

In vitro fertilization (IVF)  refers to a long treatment journey that will pick up mature oocytes and retrieve sperm, female and male reproductive cells, to allow fertilization or bring them together outside of the body in a laboratory environment.  IVF treatment is now much simpler and more effortless thanks to recent technological advancements.

How is IVF done step by step?

An IVF treatment consists in the fertilization of oocytes collected from the candidate mother by the husband sperm  in the laboratory and the transfer of the “best quality” embryo to the mother’s womb called uterus or uterine cavity.  The IVF process has important steps that should not be skipped and completed fully:

1. 1. In the first step of the IVF cycle, oocyte production is stimulated by hormonal therapy. This phase of the treatment will last around 8 to 10 days and will be followed by oocyte pick up (OPU), a procedure performed under anesthesia where oocytes will be collected by an embryologist working in the IVF laboratory. 
   2. In a second parallel step, a perm sample is taken from the father-to-be on the same day as the egg collection process. The collected sperm is quickly delivered to the laboratory.
   3. In a third step, collected oocytes  are fertilized, in laboratory conditions, by the sperm collected from the spouse. Oocytes are, in the vast majority of cases, injected during a procedure called ICSI or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertilization occurs 16 to 18 hours following the injection. During the following days of embryo culture, some embryos will show a better division pattern thus better quality and will be chosen for embryo transfer by the embryologist.
   4. In a forth step, the best quality embryo expected to have the better pregnancy potential will be transferred by the gynecologist to the uterine cavity. 
   5. In the last step, around two weeks following embryo transfer, a pregnancy test is done to determine whether implantation has occurred and gestation has begun.