Pregnant with quads at 65 with IVF donor eggs

According to an article in the Washington Post:

Annegret Raunigk has 13 children, now 65 the German woman is pregnant with quadruplets. The last time Annegret Raunigk gave birth, to her 13th child, she was 55 years old.

Now, the 65-year-old teacher from Germany is pregnant once again — this time with quadruplets conceived through in vitro fertilization, the …

Egg freezing is on the rise

Actually egg freezing has “made it” as the subject of a major article in Scientific American.

According to the article: Human egg freezing is going mainstream. The biggest reason: it works. A handful of studies suggest the success rate for women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) is just as high when using frozen eggs as fresh ones. The results …

Is the recipient’s age a factor in egg donor cycle success?

This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, formerly a partner and Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.


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A study on outcomes of egg donation: what is a good outcome?

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined outcome of egg donor cycles in the U. S. But what was their definition of a good outcome?

The authors examined trends and outcomes in donor egg cycles from 2000 to 2010 and analyzed predictors of good perinatal outcomes among in vitro fertilization cycles using fresh (non-cryopreserved) embryos …

Donor Egg Bank USA achieves milestone of 500 embryo transfers

Reflecting the growing trend of donor egg as a fertility treatment option, Donor Egg Bank USA announces the company milestone of more than 500 embryo transfers completed.

Donor Egg Bank USA, a leading frozen donor egg bank, provides frozen donor eggs to infertility patients who are unable to conceive a child using their own eggs. After a donor egg is …

Egg donation cycles increase, so do success rates

A substantial increase in the number of donor egg cycles in the United States from 2000 to 2010 was accompanied by an increase in good perinatal outcomes, reported investigators at the conjoint meeting of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

A review of data from 93% of all fertility centers in the United …

Egg donation on the increase

According to an article in USA Today, more U.S. women are attempting to have children using eggs donated by other women and taking home healthy babies as a result.

Fertility clinics reported 18,306 procedures using fresh or frozen donated eggs in 2010, up from 10,801 in 2000, according to the study published online by the Journal of the American …

Egg freezing does not increase chance of chromosome abnormalities

A reassuring study in the October 2010 issue of Fertility & Sterility demonstrates that blastocysts created from previously vitrified eggs are not at risk for an increased risk of abnormal chromosome configuration (aneuploidy) and have equivalent reproductive potential to those created from fresh eggs.

To assess the risk they froze half of the eggs by vitrification and compared the results …