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- IVF/ICSI – treatment steps
The IVF and ICSI therapies differ from each other only in the laboratory. The preparation and hormonal treatment as well as egg cell removal are identical for the both procedures. Please read here how therapies proceed and what kind of individual treatment steps are necessary.
It is important for the In Vitro Fertilization, to achieve the maturation of many follicles through a controlled hyper stimulation. By means of this stimulation, we increase the chance to retrieve many embryos, to fertilize them successfully and to transfer ...
We carry out an ultrasonic examination in the beginning of the treatment to make sure everything is ok. We control the growing follicle during the stimulation treatment – also by means of an ultrasound. On the day of ultrasound examination ...
Administering GnRH –agonisten (see medicaments) prevents spontaneous ovulation and loss of egg cells. To prepare for the egg cell retrieval for In Vitro Fertilization, the ovulation is triggered by hCG-Injection (instead of natural LH) as long as corresponding values are ...
The follicles are obtained by puncture through the vagina under an ultrasonic control. The intervention can be carried out under a light general anaesthesia (strong pain medication and moderately strong sleeping injection are administered into the vein) or carried out ...
It is important that you sperm makes it to our laboratory as soon as possible after the egg cell retrieval and that it is as sterile as possible. The sperm can be obtained at home through masturbation but in this ...
The sperm retrieved for the IVF up to 4 hours after the egg cell retrieval is prepared in the laboratory. The motile sperms are put into the culture liquid 2 to 6 hours later, for the conventional In Vitro Fertilisation ...
If at least one viable embryo matures in the culture medium, it can be usually transferred two to three days after egg cells retrieval. You will get an appointment in our praxis for that. The embryo or embryos are transferred ...