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 Fairfield County Infertility Clinic
IVF was developed in the United Kingdom by Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. The first so-called "test-tube baby", Louise Brown, was born as a result of IVF on July 25, 1978.
The first successful IVF treatment in the United Staes (producing Elizabeth Jordan Carr) occurred three years later, in 1981. Since then, IVF has become a successful treatment for infertility, with more than 1% of all births now being conceived as a result of IVF.
Treatment cycles are typically started on the third day of menstruation and consist of a regimen of fertility medications to stimulate the development of multiple follicles (that contain eggs) of the ovaries. Patient usually first start birth control pills to “rest” the ovaries prior to taking stimulatory medications. Shortly thereafter, patients start taking injectable fertililty medications (containing follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] and/or luteinizing hormone [LH], and are subsequently closely monitoring.
Monitoring accomplished by both blood work (to check hormone levels) and by ultrasound (to monitor the growth of the follicles that contain the eggs). Approximately 10-12 days of stimulatory injections are needed to achieve optimal follicular growth and development.
When egg maturation is judged to be adequate by ultrasound and blood work, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is adminsitered by injection. hCG matures the eggs prior to removing them from the ovaries; thus, without this last injection, all eggs retrieved would be immature and incapable of being fertilized.
www.parkavefertility.com
Park Avenue Fertility
5520 Park Avenue
Suite 103
Trumbull, CT 06611
Tel: (203)-372-6700
Fax: (203)-372-6706
Cooper Center for In-Vitro Fertilization
The rate of conception for a couple is approximately 20% per cycle. However, due to many factors which may impair fertility, one out of every six couples attempting to achieve a pregnancy will experience difficulty. Our objective is to provide the best medical evaluation and therapy available in order to achieve a pregnancy in a minimal amount of time.
Ovulation disorders may be broken down into three distinct categories. The first, anovulation, is when a woman does not ovulate at all. Ovulation inducing drugs, (also known as "fertility drugs") are used to correct anovulation. The most commonly prescribed are Clomid (clomiphene citrate) or Serophone, an orally administered compound used to stimulate the release of pituitary gonadotropins to mediate ovulation. We also use injectable medications comprised of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), also known as human menopausal gonadotropins (hMG), prescribed as Pergonal and Humegon. A similar injectable drug, Metrodin, which is pure FSH minus the LH, is used in similar circumstances as hMG. Its clinical application is to stimulate ovarian follicle growth and maturation. The third fertility drug which would be prescribed, in cases where the serum prolactin level is elevated, would be bromocriptine.
Another type of ovulatory problem is a luteal phase defect. There are two kinds of luteal phase defects, the first, referred to as a pure luteal phase defect, in which there is insufficient production of the hormone progesterone, but the follicle (the sac containing the egg) is mature. Progesterone is needed to build up the uterine lining, to enable the embryo to implant. To determine a progesterone deficiency an endometrial biopsy is performed, a simple procedure done in the office
where a small sample of endometrial (uterine) tissue is obtained with a plastic pipette. Supplementation of progesterone during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle (after ovulation) may be given. Information regarding the benefits of progesterone and the options for treatment will be provided to patients in order that they may select the treatment option that best suits their physical comfort and financial affordability.
www.ccivf.com
7447 Old York Road
Melrose Park, PA 19027
(215) 635-4400
Fax: (215) 635-2304
IVF FLORIDA Reproductive Associates
About 40 percent of infertility cases can be attributed to male factors and about 40 percent to factors that affect women. For the remaining 20 percent of infertile couples, infertility is caused by a combination of problems in both partners or is unexplained.
Male infertility factors are most often related to sperm production, the anatomy or structure of a man's reproductive organs and a man's immune system. Infertility can occur when there is a low sperm count, problems with motility (sperm movements), or sperm cells are malformed. In rare cases, genetic diseases, such as, cystic fibrosis or chromosomal abnormality cause infertility in men.
Female infertility is most commonly associated with an ovulation disorder. Other causes include blocked fallopian tubes, which can be caused by a pelvic inflammatory disease and endometriosis. Birth defects involving the structure of the uterus and uterine fibroids are associated with repeated miscarriages.
According to ASRM, infertility affects about 6.1 million people in the U.S.- about 10 percent of the reproductive age population. It is defined for patients under the age of 35 as the failure to conceive after one year of regular unprotected intercourse. For patients older than 35, this time frame is shortened to six months.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), of approximately 60 million women of reproductive age in 1995, about 1.2 million, or two percent, had made an infertility-related medical appointment within the previous year and an additional 13 percent had received infertility services at some time in their lives. (Infertility services include medical tests to diagnose infertility, medical advice and treatments to help a woman become pregnant and services other than routine prenatal care to prevent miscarriage.)
www.ivfflorida.com
Margate Clinic & Ambulatory Surgery Center
2960 North State Road 7,
Suite 300
Margate, Fl. 33063
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