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Fertility option – ICSI and SUZI
A relatively new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) allows a single sperm to be injected directly into the centre of the egg. An alternative is sub-zonal insemination (SUZI), where a single sperm is placed just beneath the zona pellucida (the protein shell which surrounds the egg). ICSI and SUZI can be of great benefit to couples where…
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Tagged Fertilisation, Fertility, ICSI, Infertility, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection, IVF
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Real-life inspiration : FET (frozen embryo transfer) success story
As this story shows, couples will do anything to have a baby! Be inspired and enjoy the story, and we hope you experience their good luck. Jeni: ‘His smile tells me everything we went through was worth it.’ When Wayne and I met, we knew we wanted to be together forever. That wish was granted but we…
Infertility treatment : ICSI and SUZI
ICSI and SUZI A relatively new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) allows a single sperm to be injected directly into the centre of the egg. An alternative is sub-zonal insemination (SUZI), where a single sperm is placed just beneath the zona pellucida (the protein shell which surrounds the egg). ICSI and SUZI can be of great benefit…
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Tagged Egg, Fertility, ICSI, Infertility, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection, IVF, ovum, Sperm, sub-zonal insemination, SUZI
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PGD – Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
This cutting-edge IVF technique is being developed to help couples where one or both partners carries a serious genetic disease, such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and beta-thalassemia, or X-linked chromosome disorders. The technique involves many hours of intricate lab work so that faulty genes and chromosomes can be detected in fertilised embryos after they’ve been…
ICSI treatment: ..and then the rest of our lives started
Somehow, with assisted conception, you can’t help feeling your partner’s pregnancy is a bit different – all expectant parents must be nervous, but after the intitial good news we were beside ourselves with worry. A twin pregnancy exacerbated that – physically, the demands on my wife, who was feeling a bit drained by the ICSI treatment,…
Posted in Infertility, Multiple Births
Tagged conception, ICSI, Infertility, Multiple birth
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Underweight or Overweight Affects Fertility
Extremes of weight are associated with a reduced chance of pregnancy in women receiving fertility treatment, a study inthis week’s British Medical Journal has found. Over 3,500 Australian women, who received assisted reproduction treatment between 1987 and 1998, were divided into five groups according to their weight: underweight, moderate, overweight, obese and very obese. Fertility was defined as the…
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Tagged conception, Female infertility, Fertility, ICSI, IVF, Pregnancy, Weight
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ICSI and SUZI
This IVF technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) allows a single sperm to be injected directly into the centre of the egg. An alternative is sub-zonal insemination (SUZI), where a single sperm is placed just beneath the zona pellucida (the protein shell which surrounds the egg). ICSI and SUZI can be of great benefit to couples where the…
Infertility treatments
The type of treatment you are offered will depend on the problem or problems that have been identified. If you are not producing eggs regularly you will be offered ovulation stimulation treatment. This involves taking drugs to try and increase the number and frequency of eggs you produce. If there is a physical problem such as a blocked…
Fertility : the reality
When I learned I had fertility problems, I fainted with shock. This is not an exaggeration – it’s not a figure of speech; I actually, literally, hugely embarrassingly (in retrospect) passed out on the consultant’s office floor just as he was explaining to me that evidence of antibodies had been discovered affecting my sperm – which is one reason…
IVF link to placenta previa
25th May 2006 IVF may increase the risk of a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy. A Norwegian study has found that the risk of placenta previa rose from about three in 1,000 pregnancies in the general population, to 16 in 1,000 for women who had had IVF. The condition in which the placenta covers part or all of…
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Tagged British Fertility Society, East Midlands, Fertility, Fertility clinic, gynaecologist, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ICSI, In vitro fertilisation, Mark Hamilton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Norway, obstetrician, Placenta praevia, placenta previa, Pregnancy, premature birth
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