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| Assisted Reproductive Techniques |
The
present scenario of conception shows at least 10-15% of the couples suffering
intricacy in conceiving a baby, worldwide as per WHO.
Prevalence
of Infertility is in ascending trend, due to transformation of our life style,
abundant changes in the environment as an outcome of industrialization,
urbanization, vehicles pollution and other occupational hazards. Insecticides,
pesticides, drugs and chemicals also contribute a greater role to this increasing
trend.
AssistedReproductive Techniques – commonly known as Test tube baby treatment is an
advanced scientific treatment, in which wife’s eggs are fertilized with
husband’s sperms, outside the body in an ideal laboratory environment. They are
meticulously handled and cultured using incubators and very many updated
gadgets. If the resultant embryos are replaced into the wife’s uterus on fifth
day which is called Blastocyst transfer, it gives an incredible success rate of
60-70%, on the contrary to the commonly performed second or third day uterine transfer
which offers, just 20-30% success rates only. Blastocyst culture is the routine
culture method in our laboratory since 2000 at Genesis Fertility Centre –GFRC –
(a unit of Maaruthi Medical Centre and Hospitals) Erode.
In
severe Male Infertility with very low sperm counts, we adopt a treatment
modality called ICSI- Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection. In this, one healthy
sperm is enough for one retrieved egg, which is aspirated in a micro needle and
injected into the cytoplasm of the egg under higher magnification, resulting in
a chromosomally normal embryo with enhanced growth and implantation potency. We
add an advanced technology called Laser assisted hatching before embryo
transfer, which sharply rises the opportunities for successful pregnancies. We
are doing this advanced technique since 2003 in our centre, out of which more
than 4500 babies have born in GFRC- MMCH till now.
Third
party reproduction includes “egg donation” and “surrogacy”. Egg donation is
indicated for older women of more than 40 years, who have nonfunctioning
ovaries or no ovaries due to surgery, disease or congenital cause. In surrogacy
the rented mother should be less than 35 years with good uterus. This modality
is considered for women who have no uterus by birth or uterus operated/removed
and for women who are medically unfit to withstand a pregnancy. Since 1997, egg
donation and surrogacy are being done with reasonable success rates in our
institution (GFRC - MMCH).
Cryopreservation is a
modality in which embryos, sperms and eggs are being preserved by us for many
months / years, which may help the needy couples to undergo almost cost free
embryo transfers in subsequent cycles.
It
has been proved scientifically and socially by various genetic and clinical
studies worldwide, in the past 35 years, that the children born out of ART – as
test tube babies - are not different from the children born naturally. The
incidences of birth defects are also at par with the naturally conceived
babies.
Latest
advancements in this field of Reproductive medicine introduced recently in our
centre (GFRC – MMCH) includes - IMSI- Intracytoplasmic Morphologically selected
Sperm Injection, Oocyte Vitrification, In Vitro Maturation of oocyes and
transfer of Cytoplasm from an young women’s eggs to older women’s,
bringing exceptionally bright scope in
managing the deprived infertile couples.
To Get Pregnant via "ART – Assisted Reproduction Techniques"
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