IN
VITRO FETRILIZATION
ABOUT IVF
IVF is one of the several assisted reproductive technologies (ART) used to help infertile couple and conceive a child. Approximately
20 percent of couples have fertility difficulties.
IVF is
a term fertilising eggs with sperm outside of human body. Once the eggs are fertilised, the resulting of embryos
are placed in the women’s uterus in the hope that successful pregnancy will
follow.
THE IVF PROCEDURE
There are several steps to follow
o
Stimulating
the ovaries
o
Collecting
the eggs
o
Fertilisation
o
Embryo
transfer
STIMULATING
OVARIES
·
Hormones
are usually given to stimulate ovaries procedure Usual more than one egg per
cycle.This is to enable collection of several eggs.
·
Development
of these eggs monitored by blood test and ultra sound ensure eggs are collected
at the right time.
COLLECTING
THE EGGS
·
When
the time comes to collecting the eggs an ultra will be placed in the vagina
while women under light sedation. The ultra sound where the follicles are within
the ovaries.
·
A
fine needle passed through the vaginal wall and into the ovaries. Each follicle
in the ovary is pierced in the order to collect its eggs.
FERTILISATION
A couple of hours after eggs collecting, A man provide sample
of
Saman. In a standard
IVF treatment, the eggs are mixed with the sperm in a
Culture dish. For
intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment one sperm
injected
Directly into the cytoplasm
egg.
EMBRYO TRANSFER
Once the
embryos grow to a predetermined size, one or two
Will be transfer back to
the women’s uterus in appropriate time in her menstrual
Cycle.
