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New IVF Procedure May Triple Success Rate
New procedure may triple the success rate for IVF.
A new procedure in human trials now may triple the success rate for IVF. One study showed that 88 percent of the women undergoing it gave birth to healthy babies.
The procedure, called Chromosome Aneuploidy Screening, screens embryos for chromosomal abnormalities before implanting them in a woman’s body. This process eliminates most of the risk of miscarriage, as well as future health risks like Down’s Syndrome.
It’s like pre-prenatal screening. Which in itself should come as a huge relief to moms going through fertility treatments and trying to weigh the risks of existing prenatal tests.
Currently, doctors use visual exams of the size and shape of an embryo to gauge which ones seem healthiest. The new technique replaces that subjective call with a chromosomal test, taken at 5 days gestation.
Because they can check the health of an embryo before implanting it in a patient’s womb, doctors using this technique can implant fewer embryos. That should cut down on the number of IVF related multiple births.
The research team hopes their technique will be widely available in fertility clinics within a couple of years.
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Family Update: The State of Special Education, Alcoholic Moms, New IVF Successes and More | Family Jewels - Canadian Family Blog commented on Oct 28 10 at 4:17 pmAliaZ commented on Oct 28 10 at 12:04 pmIt’s more than just the genetic screening. The process of harvesting eggs for IVF is really hard on the body — let’s not talk about the financial costs. To have an 88% chance of having a LIVE BIRTH, not just a pregnancy, from a single cycle of IVF would be amazing. I struggled with fertility, and reading this makes me almost teary-eyed with hope.
brad commented on Oct 29 10 at 6:32 pmThis is the most ignorant thing I have ever read:
1) “study showed that 88 percent of the women undergoing it gave birth to healthy babies”
2) “This process eliminates most of the risk of …future health risks like Down’s Syndrome.”
This test does not cause women to have healthy babies nor eliminate the risk of DS as #1 and #2 proclaim. If a fetus has a medical condition, it can only read it…not fix it.
Yet, the underlying message is that if this baby doesn’t meet our idealized standards, we should eliminate it. I am not pro-life, per se, but I am pro-choice. That means not feeding people crap that reduces the value of a child with DS as something that is a “risk” and should be aborted.
You should be more thoughtful in what you write and the suggestive subtext.
Fertility commented on Sep 21 11 at 7:39 amI simply wished to point out the connection between eating problems and sperm count complications. In a new recent post i just read, Eating disorders generally interrupt menstrual periods, however information is sparse regarding long-term results of these kinds of disorders on fertility as well as attitudes when it comes to being pregnant. Investigators assessed these problems througly and the desired info is non conclusive! plus, The actual amount involving girls in the United states having their own very first child at as well as after age 30 has quadrupled ever since the mid-70s!
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