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Regular and unprotected sexual intercourse for at least a year is advised to couples with desire to have children. One of the most important factors on infertility is the age of female partner. If mother-to-be is older than 35, couple should seek medical attention after 6 months of regular and unprotected sexual intercourse.
If couple has not been able to conceive after 6 months, they need to have some tests done in this way their reproductive capacity can be determined. If there are any obstacle on becoming pregnant, that assisted reproductive treatment methods can be advised to the patients.
IVF treatment can be applied for both male and female infertility cases, IVF treatment helps couples with infertility diagnoses to have a child. Assisted Reproductive Treatments (ART) generally takes between 15 to 18 days, it is ended by checking the Beta HCG levels by a blood analyses of mother-to-be, if this test comes with a positive result pregnancy continues in the same way as natural pregnancy.
There are many factors that have an impact on the occurrence of pregnancy, however age of female partner is amongst the most important factors. The statistics shows us that, success rate of IVF treatment on couples where female partner is aged 20 to 30 years is 70%. This rate reduces to about 20% when the age of female partner advances to 40 – 42 years. Before we move on to the stage of IVF treatments, we should find out what is IVF.
IVF stands for in vitro fertilization is a part of Assisted Reproductive Treatment (ART), on IVF treatment reproductive cells of male and female partners is fertilized in the laboratory, in this way pregnancy occurs. It is advised to couples younger than 35 to have regular and unprotected sexual intercourse for a year and for those who are older than 35 it is advised them to try to conceive for 6 months before starting IVF treatment. If that is not enough for conceive than couple should seek medical attention for IVF treatment.
IVF treatment starts with measuring the hormonal levels of mother-to-be, these hormones triggers procedure of maturing ovaries. Once the eggs are matured enough and cracks, with OPU procedure eggs are collected. Meanwhile male partner gives sperm sample, both cells are get evaluated in the laboratory and they are either left together in a tube to perform fertilization or microinjection method is used to perform fertilization. Microinjection method is injecting sperm into egg for fertilization.
5 days after the fertilization, embryos are checked in terms of their quality and health. Healthiest embryo is transferred into uterus of mother-to-be. This is called embryo transfer.
This is brief explanation of stages of the IVF treatment. 2 weeks after the embryo transfer, beta HCG levels of female partner is evaluated via blood analyse. If this test is gives positive result, it means pregnancy is occurred.
For conceiving, having healthy reproductive system is important but having balanced hormonal levels are equally important therefore having good overall health and all systems in the body working in sequence accordingly with each other is also highly important. Hypothalamus region in the brain triggers the hypophysis tissue in the brain, hypophysis tissue is endocrine tissue, and it secretes LH and FSH hormones.
Via blood circulation LH and FSH hormones reach to the ovaries, those hormones trigger the maturing process of the eggs. Matured eggs crack the pouch that it is hold in and moves towards the fallopian tubes.
Egg cells can live up 24 hours in the body. Sperm cells can live up to 5 days in the body. If the sexual intercourse occurs when matured egg move to the fallopian tubes, sperms will reach to the fallopian tubes and meet with egg cell, here the fertilization takes place.
When egg cracks the follicle that it is held in, it secretes oestrogen hormone, this helps thickening of the uterus wall otherwise known as endometrium. In this way, fertilized embryo can adherence to the uterus. During this whole procedure, there are many different factors in the female body that can impact conceiving.
Male infertility can also impact conceiving. Therefore, couples who have been trying to conceive over a year should seek medical attention to get health check-up.
This can answer the frequently asked question of “When I need to start IVF treatment?” Another commonly asked question by our patients is when can I start my IVF treatment following abortion?
A person may need abortion for medical reason, and this is called medivac. Medivac may be needed for diagnostic or treatment reasons, following miscarriage abortion is performed to make sure all parts are taken out of the body. Following medical abortion, patient should wait for at least 3 months before starting her new IVF cycle.
Hysterescopy operations are performed for medical reason for both diagnostic and treatment reasons. The operation is scanning and monitoring of intra-uterus and fallopian tubes via an optic device. Generally anesthesia is not applied for diagnostic hysterescopies however, hysterecopy operations for treatment purposes requires anesthesia.
As the hysterescopy devices give high-definition images of the uterus and tubes, physician can diagnose and medical problems and adapt the treatment accordingly.
Following hysterescopy operation, we advise our patients sexual abstinence for a week, in this way tissues can repair themselves during this period. Depending on the type of hysterescopy performed, patient can start IVF treatment a month later. IVF treatment applied after the hysterescopy operation generally gives ends with positive result.
Laparoscopy, which can be defined as a surgical method, is also known as closed surgery or bloodless surgery. In addition to many different diseases, laparoscopic surgery can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of gynecological diseases. Especially in the presence of formations such as fibroids, polyps, ovarian cysts that prevent pregnancy, the possibility of the person to move increases after laparoscopy.
Since the procedure is performed with a closed technique, recovery time is much faster than open surgeries. The time required to wait for an IVF after laparoscopy may differ depending on the operation performed and the intervention area. However, it can be said that this period is 3 to 6 months on average.
IVF Prices can differ for every centre. At this point, you should question the content of the IVF package they offer, is it including all the procedure till the end of the treatment. Along with this, speciality and the experience of the physician and medical staff, physical conditions of the hospital or clinic affects the IVF treatment price.
If you need IVF treatment for price and further information you can give us a call from 444 39 49.
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