Endometrial receptivity testing is a way to narrow down a woman’s window of implantation prior to an embryo transfer, but is this test appropriate for every woman who has undergone an IVF cycle? When the test was first developed, its primary indication was for women with recurrent implantation failure. As we learn more about the test though, we’re finding that …
For some time now our experience has shown us that when we do all-freeze cycles and only tranfer embyos in frozen embryo cycles we get better results. This phenomenon occurs whether PGS is performed to help us select chromosomally normal embryos or in non-PGS cycles when we select embryos by morphology.
However in contrast to our experience, results from two …
On November 25, 2017, Tina Gibson, a woman in Tennessee gave birth to her daughter, Emma, who had spent 24 years as a frozen embryo. This is the longest-frozen embryo to successfully come to birth. Emma weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz. when she was born and is a thriving newborn.
Emma had initially been conceived via in vitro fertilization and …
Have you seen the TV ad that asks, “Got Milk?” For many women a more important question is, “Got Endometriosis?” It’s very common; endometriosis affects about 1 in 10 women. So why don’t more women know its symptoms? And not being aware you have endometriosis can be detrimental to your health and especially your fertility.
Endometriosis is a condition in …
New research presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Scientific Congress in October quantified the heavy financial burden that endometriosis puts on patients.
Using insurance claims, data analysts associated with the pharmaceutical company AbbVie examined the costs faced by women with endometriosis. The costs varied depending on the treatment modality. Surgical patients faced higher costs than those who did …
Singletons born after frozen embryo transfer are at significantly increased risk for being born large for gestational age (LGA), results of a retrospective, case-matched cohort study confirm.
Frozen embryo transfer (FET) was found to be a significant independent risk factor for LGA among FET singletons (odds ratio, 1.69) on par with multiparity (OR, 1.615) and maternal body mass index (BMI) …
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, former partner and Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
In a fresh …
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, former partner and Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
Recent trenda in …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
One of our greatest challenges has been …
In a variation on the theme of transferring fewer embryos to reduce high-order multiple pregnancies, an article in the January 2010 issue of Fertility & Sterility shows that transferring two instead of three embryos leads to equal success and a lower triplet rate.
In reviewing 145 frozen embryo transfers, doctors at the University of Connecticut found that transfer of two …
