
Drugs Overcome infertility
These drugs can be used as first treatment for women who do not ovulate. Works the same way with the hormone the body and stimulate the ovaries to release eggs. This method is known as ovulation induction.
Sometimes these drugs can result in conception after a few months without the need for further treatment.
Side effects that may arise resemble premenstrual symptoms such as dizziness, headache, and weight gain.
These drugs are also used in the treatment of infertility is more complex as in vitro fertilization and intrauterina insemination. You can also using other medicines that help control the menstrual cycle or thicken the uterine lining to prepare for pregnancy.
These medications can also cause side effects such as hot files, headaches, dizziness and breast firmness.
Medical Aid Fertility
Intra Urine insemination (IUI)
Intraurine insemination is also known as additional insemination, the process including sperm entry into the uterus at the time of ovulation by using a pipe (in the form of a very small needle). Women also need to use fertility drugs to produce eggs stimulus. While sperm from her husband could use or donations from other people.
This medication is used to overcome: the infertility is not clear why, premature ejaculation, erection difficulties. Possible success: 10-15% per cycle.
In vitro fertilization (IVF)
Eggs and sperm are collected and fertilized in the laboratory before the embryo is generated in transformed into the uterus. Women need to use fertility drugs to produce eggs stimulus. When the eggs are ready to be fertilized, they were collected by using ultrasound guidance.
Men produce sperm sample, which had been prepared before the eggs are placed together in petri dishes and left for a few days to see if fertilization occurs. Produced a healthy embryo is inserted into the uterus by using a pipe (a very small needle).
Embryos that good living and still can be saved for use again in the future. Sperm and / or eggs that can be used by the spouse or other party donated.
Why is used: to overcome infertility with no apparent reason, the blocked fallopian tubes, endometriosis. Possible success: about 25% per cycle.
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
A sperm is injected into the cytoplasm or the center of the ovary. Then transferred into the uterus with the same process as IVF.
Why is used: to overcome infertility factors, such as the number of sperm that are too small or the less agile sperm and sperm shape abnormalities.
Success Rate: the same as IVF, approximately 25% each cycle, sometimes more.
Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT)
Gametes, the ovaries and sperm, collected as in the IVF process. But the merger of the ovaries and sperm in a lab is not done directly, but they were transferred to one of the women's fallopian tubes, so fertilization will occur in the body. Why use: overcoming infertility with no apparent reason.
Success Rate: about 25% of each cycle it.
Extraction of sperm (sperm extraction)
Small surgery that move sperm from the epididymis (the tube where sperm mature in the male body) or from the testicles (where sperm cells are made) for use in ICSI or other treatment. Why is used: because men can not produce sperm, for example after vasectomy.
Likelihood of success: when used in ICSI, the possibility of success of about 25%.
Embryo Freezing
This process uses embryos that already exist. In this process only two embryos to be transferred into the womb in a single process of fertilization. This process may also be reviewed and reduced to a single embryo to avoid pregnancy complications, and double birth and premature birth.
But, because IVF often produces more embryos than the amount that can be transferred in one cycle, most clinics will freeze the remaining healthy embryos to be used in subsequent IVF process, with the permission of the patient.
Why is used: to avoid a cycle of IVF, including the process of ovarian stimulation and egg collection.
Likelihood of success: typically only 60% of embryos survive the cooling process and the embryos that survived the implant has a lower so that the possibility of pregnancy is also lower compared with the use of fresh embryos.
More options
Blastocyst transfer
If in the process of IVF, the embryo failed to put into the womb, the doctor may recommend blastocyst transfer. Embryo allowed to grow for 5 or 6 days before it is transferred into the uterus. Because the embryo is more developed and the transfer is close to the time where the implant will occur naturally, then the possibility of a pregnancy is also greater.
But, some embryos will die in the lab, so the number of embryos available for transfer would be less. For this reason, this process is usually offered to women who produce good-quality embryos in large numbers.
Assisted Hatching
Prior to the wall of the uterus, the embryo needs to hatch and liberate themselves from the gel-like membrane called the zone pellucid.This membrane can be hard and thick, and some experts in the field of fertilization thought that this could interfere with the embryo implants in the uterus.
To help roses release of embryos, embryo experts make a small hole in the membrane before it is transferred to help the process of hatching.
Special inspection (special check)
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
PGD includes examining the genes of embryos aged between 2 and 5 days, and were created by IVF to see genetic diseases like hemophilia and cysts fibrosis, as well as several subsequent diseases such as cancer can be inherited breast, ovarian, and colon cancer. The embryos are free of disease will be transferred to the uterus.
When is used: if one spouse has a child diagnosed with having a genetic disorder and the risk of other genetic diseases, if there is a family history of breast cancer, ovarian cancer or colon cancer.
Pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS)
PGS includes examining the resulting embryo in IVF to ensure that the embryo has the correct number of chromosomes, and these embryos are normal.
When is used: if the parent is aged about 45 years, with a high risk of having children with abnormalities such as down syndrome chromosome or if the mother is history as a carrier or carrier properties.
