New Hope Fertility Centre Launches Frozen Egg Banking: The Next Logical Step in IVF
In Vitro Fertilization is a technology on the cutting edge of medical science. It was a science that was created to meet a basic human need, to bring the gift of childbirth to parents who were biologically unable to conceive on their own.
New York, NY, September 04, 2010 --(PR.com)-- New Hope Fertility Clinic Introduces Frozen Egg Banking as the Latest Technological Breakthrough in Safety and Efficiency of In Vitro Fertilization
In Vitro Fertilization is a technology on the cutting edge of medical science. It was a science that was created to meet a basic human need, to bring the gift of childbirth to parents who were biologically unable to conceive on their own. From then on, it has been a technology driven by the needs and demands of these patients, seeking to become more efficient, more effective and as safe as possible for the patients for whom it is the only choice if they want to have a non-adoptive child. Egg Banking using Vitrification, as that practiced by New York’s New Hope Fertility Clinic, is one such new technology with important practical improvements for today’s IVF client.
In the In Vitro Fertilization procedure, an egg is removed in a simple, minimally invasive surgical procedure from the mother to be, and is then fertilized in a laboratory setting with sperm from a partner or donor. The egg is then returned to the woman’s uterus where, if the procedure is successful, it implants itself in the uterine wall and produces a regular and healthy pregnancy. In egg donation, the eggs are not taken from the mother to be, but from a donor, who is usually given fertility drugs to stimulate egg production and increase the chances for successful implantation. The egg or eggs are then harvested, fertilized as in the standard IVF procedure, and surgically inserted in the recipient’s uterus.
One of the most difficult technical aspects of modern egg donation is the necessity of synchronizing the ovulation of donor and recipient. This is usually done by the use of birth control and/or fertility drugs, to control or adjust the cycles of donor and recipient. There are, however, a number of downsides or complications associated with this clinical practice. First of all, pharmaceutically adjusted cycles may not leave the recipient as likely to conceive or to achieve implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus. The donor process by its very nature has lower implantation and successful full-term pregnancy than natural conception or IVF with the birth mother. The most significant complication, as with many procedures involving fertility drugs, is multiple birth, although new technologies, such as New Hope Fertility Clinic’s unique Blastocyst Guarantee, where fertilized eggs are allowed to develop to the blastocyst or multi-cell embryonic stage before transplantation, can dramatically reduce this. Still, it is not unreasonable to suppose that a woman’s naturally occurring cycles are just plain better.
Egg Banking allows New Hope’s egg donor program to take advantage of this natural window. In this process, harvested eggs are fertilized, then cryogenically stored until the recipient is at the optimal stage in her own natural cycle. Eggs can actually be safely ‘banked’ for weeks, months, or even years. This would also allow for more time to make absolutely sure of the health of both donor and recipient. In some studies, recipients of banked eggs had marginally higher rates of successful pregnancy than those using non-frozen eggs.
Another potential benefit is cost. There is no clear way at present to predict how the donor will respond to fertility treatments, although clinics harvest all mature eggs produced. This complicates shared donor arrangements because the chances of not having enough eggs for the second recipient, who is already undergoing treatment, is high. New Hope Fertility Clinic believes that with egg banking, maximum usage can be made from all available eggs, reducing overall cost. Further, the additional length of time harvested eggs may be available may also increase the pool of available donors. Both add up to increased client satisfaction. It is not clear yet whether the length of time will allow women considering permanent sterilization to bank eggs for later use, as men who donate sperm prior to having a vasectomy currently can. Research is showing no health problems for the children resulting from IVF pregnancies involving banked eggs. Clearly, Egg Banking is the latest link in the chain of technological breakthrough allowing providers like New Hope to continue to increase the ease, comfort and success rate of modern fertility treatments. This is the most important goal for women and couples to whom conception is the ultimate gift in quality of life.
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In Vitro Fertilization is a technology on the cutting edge of medical science. It was a science that was created to meet a basic human need, to bring the gift of childbirth to parents who were biologically unable to conceive on their own. From then on, it has been a technology driven by the needs and demands of these patients, seeking to become more efficient, more effective and as safe as possible for the patients for whom it is the only choice if they want to have a non-adoptive child. Egg Banking using Vitrification, as that practiced by New York’s New Hope Fertility Clinic, is one such new technology with important practical improvements for today’s IVF client.
In the In Vitro Fertilization procedure, an egg is removed in a simple, minimally invasive surgical procedure from the mother to be, and is then fertilized in a laboratory setting with sperm from a partner or donor. The egg is then returned to the woman’s uterus where, if the procedure is successful, it implants itself in the uterine wall and produces a regular and healthy pregnancy. In egg donation, the eggs are not taken from the mother to be, but from a donor, who is usually given fertility drugs to stimulate egg production and increase the chances for successful implantation. The egg or eggs are then harvested, fertilized as in the standard IVF procedure, and surgically inserted in the recipient’s uterus.
One of the most difficult technical aspects of modern egg donation is the necessity of synchronizing the ovulation of donor and recipient. This is usually done by the use of birth control and/or fertility drugs, to control or adjust the cycles of donor and recipient. There are, however, a number of downsides or complications associated with this clinical practice. First of all, pharmaceutically adjusted cycles may not leave the recipient as likely to conceive or to achieve implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus. The donor process by its very nature has lower implantation and successful full-term pregnancy than natural conception or IVF with the birth mother. The most significant complication, as with many procedures involving fertility drugs, is multiple birth, although new technologies, such as New Hope Fertility Clinic’s unique Blastocyst Guarantee, where fertilized eggs are allowed to develop to the blastocyst or multi-cell embryonic stage before transplantation, can dramatically reduce this. Still, it is not unreasonable to suppose that a woman’s naturally occurring cycles are just plain better.
Egg Banking allows New Hope’s egg donor program to take advantage of this natural window. In this process, harvested eggs are fertilized, then cryogenically stored until the recipient is at the optimal stage in her own natural cycle. Eggs can actually be safely ‘banked’ for weeks, months, or even years. This would also allow for more time to make absolutely sure of the health of both donor and recipient. In some studies, recipients of banked eggs had marginally higher rates of successful pregnancy than those using non-frozen eggs.
Another potential benefit is cost. There is no clear way at present to predict how the donor will respond to fertility treatments, although clinics harvest all mature eggs produced. This complicates shared donor arrangements because the chances of not having enough eggs for the second recipient, who is already undergoing treatment, is high. New Hope Fertility Clinic believes that with egg banking, maximum usage can be made from all available eggs, reducing overall cost. Further, the additional length of time harvested eggs may be available may also increase the pool of available donors. Both add up to increased client satisfaction. It is not clear yet whether the length of time will allow women considering permanent sterilization to bank eggs for later use, as men who donate sperm prior to having a vasectomy currently can. Research is showing no health problems for the children resulting from IVF pregnancies involving banked eggs. Clearly, Egg Banking is the latest link in the chain of technological breakthrough allowing providers like New Hope to continue to increase the ease, comfort and success rate of modern fertility treatments. This is the most important goal for women and couples to whom conception is the ultimate gift in quality of life.
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