What are being performed at infertility center (IVF) Unit?
The center is established to help couples who are expecting to have a child, where all diagnostic and treatment procedures about this goal are being performed.
These include;
- Sperm analysis,
- Hysterosalpyngography (womb film by contrast),
- Hysterosonography (imaging the inside of the womb using ultrasonography),
- Ovulation Induction,
- Standard (IVF) and microinjectional cycles, (ICSI),
- Micromanipulation methods (assisted hatching, defragmentation) ,
- Criopreservation (storing of frozen embrios and using them after resolving in order to get new pregnancy),
- Surgical sperm obtaining methods, Micro TESE,
- Diagnostic testicle biopsy,
- Laparoscopic and hysterescopic surgical operations, DaVinci Robotic Surgery,
- Infertility surgery,
- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,
- Fertility Preservation.
Acibadem Healthcare Group IVF Unit is promising new hopes to the couples who are expecting to have a child for a long time.
In the center, ovulation induction (ovulation therapy), artificial insemination, conventional test-tube baby (IVF), microinjection (intracytoplasmic sperm injection / ICSI) and other micromanipulation methods (i.e., assisted hatching, defragmentation, blastomere biopsy) and all diagnostic and treatment methods of aiming to have a child like testicle biopsy, and laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgeries are being performed. The center which is equipped at world standards has its own operation rooms, andrology and embriology laboratories.
Storing of frozen embryos which were obtained by test-tube baby treatment for up to 3 years and using of these embryos in order to get new pregnancy are services which are given at the center routinely.
The center also applies preimplantation genetic diagnosis, which is an early prenatal diagnosis method, especially to the families who are carrying high risk for certain genetic diseases. In this way, besides having a healthy baby, mother candidates can be protected from repeated curettages and abortions. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis program is used to improve of the outcomes in the couples who have problems like repeated test-tube baby failures, repeated early pregnancy losses (abortions), infertility related to older maternal age and related to severe male factors. These advanced technologies are practiced at Acibadem IVF Unit in cooperation with Acibadem Genetic Diagnosis Laboratory which is one of the most important centers of the world in technic equipment and knowledge. Therefore, Acibadem Healthcare Group has become one of the rare reference centers which conducts the latest applications of IVF Medicine at one center.
- IMSI
What is IMSI?
In order to realize pregnancy and develop a healthy embryo both an ovum and a sperm shall be healthy. In case if there are serious problems concerning sperm, embryologists pick out healthy sperm enlarging them under a microscope. However, a sperm is the smallest cell of the human body. Thus, even though the general examination of the sperm is possible, the detailed one is difficult enough. The live sperm could be enlarged maximum 400 times in microinjection operations applied up to the present. Consequently, it was possible to examine only the general shape of the sperm in a fore mentioned enlarged ratio.Due to this new technique called IMSI [Intracytoplasmic Morpholgically Selected Sperm Injection] applied in Test Tube Baby Centre of Acibadem Maslak Hospital, it has become possible to enlarge the sperm 6000-8000 times using special microscopes equipped with the new technology, examine the intracellular structures and anomalies called "vacuole" referring to genetic damages in detail.
What is the difference?
With respect to the standard test tube baby and microinjection applications, sperm injection picked out by the IMSI technique provides an opportunity to carry out an advanced morphological analysis without detriment to a cell of the alive sperm. Thus, sperms with the highest fertilization capacity are picked out, and fertilization ratio 20%-40% higher is obtained by the microinjection applied. Consequently, pregnancy ratio increases, whereas early miscarriage risk decreases.
- Metabolomics
What is Metabolomics?
Up to the present, the quality of embryos obtained by the test tube baby method could be estimated by means of the images under a microscope. The biggest chance of pregnancy was picked using such visual characteristics as determining cell quantity and shape features of the embryo. However, it was impossible to determine whether this method is normal for embryos in the sense of genetic and metabolic activities of embryos, Embryos can seem normal but be unhealthy as in case of mature people.It is already possible to determine both the pregnancy chance and whether the embryo healthy or not examining metabolism of embryos, notably what they excrete to the development environment, as in case of determining physical condition of people by analysing blood and urine tests. This newly developed method is called "Metabolomics".
What is the difference?
Due to this method developed recently, an embryo with the highest fertilization capacity is picked out without detriment to the embryo. This new method also called a "viability index" increases the pregnancy chance even more.The newest and the highest technology Metabolomics is applied in Test Tube Baby Centre of Acibadem Maslak Hospital
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