In-Vitro Fertilization

In vitro fertilization (IVF) in the simplest sense is fertilization of a woman’s egg cell outside of her body. It was originally developed as a way to allow women with blocked or absent fallopian tubes to become pregnant.

This critically timed, carefully coordinated procedure involves removing the mature eggs from a woman’s ovary, fertilizing them with sperm, incubating the resulting embryos in a laboratory under carefully monitored conditions, then transferring the developing embryos into the woman’s uterus with hopes of establishing implantation.

Many patients are surprised to learn that IVF is not their only treatment option. However, IVF would be the first line of treatment for patients with the following conditions:

Women who experienced various unsuccessful artificial insemination treatment attempts
Women suffering from advanced endometriosis, with probable repercussions on the Fallopian tubes and on oocyte quality
Advanced maternal age patients, with low-quality oocytes
Women with an absence of or damaged Fallopian tubes
Women with hydrosalpinx
Couples in the case of which it is necessary to carry out Genetic Screening
Couples with males showing poor sperm quality (moderate or severe male factor infertility)