One of the commonest questions asked by patients undergoing IVF relates to the likelihood of their eggs fertilizing and the likely “quality of their embryos. This is also one of the most difficult questions to answer. On the … Read more
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Early Pregnancy Loss: Causes and a Rational Approach to Management.
There is nothing more stressful to patients and to caring physicians than dealing with recurrent early pregnancy losses (RPL). There is also no greater imperative in such cases than to carefully identify the underlying cause that without which successful … Read more
Optimizing Access to Sher-IVF, Las Vegas from Afar
“Over the years Sher-IVF has performed IVF on many patients that often journeyed from as far away as, France, South America, China, Europe, Africa, Central/South America, Canada, Japan, the Middle East, Russia, etc. Almost all have been surprised at the … Read more
Selecting an IVF Program: Willingness to Share Financial Risk with Patients, Builds Confidence!
Unlike virtually every other form of medical treatment in America, IVF is largely not covered by insurance. To make matters worse, patients often require more than one attempt to have a reasonable chance for success and the majority of … Read more
Deciding between Egg and Embryo Banking for Fertility preservation (FP)
Women should not delay trying to have a baby, thinking that as long as they are ovulating regularly the biological clock can simply be put on hold or that they can simply to freeze their eggs and then later … Read more
How can stress affect IVF?
There is little doubt that stress and emotional lability plays a role in the normal physiological/hormonal regulation of the menstrual cycle. After all, Eskimos often stop ovulating and menstruating during long dark winters, young women confronted by a major emotional … Read more
IVF: Immature and Post-mature Eggs: What does this mean and how can it be prevented?
One commonly hears patients undergoing IVF report that they had too many “immature eggs”, and inferring that had more time been allotted to ovarian stimulation and the administration of the “trigger shot been delayed by a day or more, this … Read more
How Old is Too Old to Do IVF Using Your Own Eggs?
There is little doubt that age is a very important determinant of IVF outcome. This is mainly because a woman’s eggs undergo deterioration in quality as her age advances to and beyond her mid 30’s. Remember, eggs have been in … Read more
(NEW) IVF: Approach to Selecting the Best Embryos for Transfer to the Uterus.
The numerical chromosomal configuration of a cell is referred to as its karyotype or ploidy. A cell with an irregular chromosome number is referred to as aneuploid while one with a normal karyotype, as euploid. It is predominantly (but not … Read more
Gestational Surrogacy for a Case of Rokitansky Syndrome: 2 Frozen Embryo Transfers Yields 3 Babies.
[CASE REPORT]
This is a re-Post for purposes of follow-up (see post-script at the end).
Background: Mary, 30 years of age and married to a fertile male partner, presented to me about four years ago with primary amenorrhea (i.e. … Read more
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