FAQ'S

Globally, the average IVF success rate is around 40% in young women. The chance of success rates also increases in women younger than 35 years of age. The success rate of this most commonly used assisted reproductive technology or ART is usually measured on the basis of live birth per embryo transfer.

IVF refers to a procedure where the woman's eggs are removed from her ovaries and fertilised with the man's sperm in a laboratory. The embryos formed are then put back into the uterus to achieve a pregnancy.

The answer to this question can only be given after you and your partner are evaluated for infertility. Infertility is when you are unable to conceive even after having unprotected sexual intercourse for a year. Not every patient suffering from infertility needs IVF. Some of them might not be an even good candidate to undergo an IVF procedure.

Invitro fertilisation is a process of fertilisation where an egg combined with sperm outside the body Invitro. The process involves monitoring & stimulating the woman’s ovulatory process, removing ova from the woman’s ovary, letting sperm fertilise them in a fertile media in the laboratory.

If monitored self-cycles have failed for 3-4 times tube test may be done to know if tubes are patent/blocked.

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection is an Invitro Fertilisation procedure in which a single sperm cell is injected directly into the cytoplasm of an egg. This technique is very useful in male partners with very low count and motility who fail to fertilise the eggs because of bad quality sperms.

The patient may experience some amount of cramping, bloating, constipation or breast tenderness post-the procedure. Other than these, most side effects as part of in vitro fertilization are experienced before the egg retrieval procedure.