INFERTILITY AFFECTS MILLIONS OF COUPLES LEADING TO UNTOLD MISERY AND FRUSTRATION. IN NIGERIA, ABOUT 25% OF COUPLES IN THEIR FERTILE AGE GROUP ARE THE SUFFERERS AND THE INCIDENCE IS ON THE INCREASE BECAUSE OF URBANIZATION, POLLUTION, STRESS, CHEMICAL EXPOSURE, CAREER ORIENTATION, LATE SETTLEMENT IN LIFE ETC.

WHILST ABOUT 40% OF INFERTILE COUPLES WILL GET PREGNANT BY THEMSELVES, BY CHANGES IN THEIR LIFESTYLES AND BY THE STANDARD GYNECOLOGICAL TREATMENTS, UP TO 60% WILL HOWEVER REQUIRE SOME FORM OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION TECHNIQUES SUCH AS INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION (IUI), INVITROFERTILIZATION (IVF) OR INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI)ETC TO ACHIEVE PREGNANCY.

IVF SIMPLY MEANS INVITRO FERTILIZATION.
IN ORDER FOR PREGNANCY TO OCCUR, AN EGG HAS TO BE RELEASED FROM THE OVARY AND UNITE WITH A SPERM. NORMALLY THIS UNION CALLED FERTILIZATION OCCURS WITHIN THE FALLOPIAN TUBE, WHICH JOINS THE UTERUS (WOMB) TO THE OVARY. HOWEVER, IN IVF, THE UNION OCCURS IN A LABORATORY AFTER EGGS AND SPERM HAVE BEEN COLLECTED, EMBRYOS ARE THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE UTERUS TO CONTINUE GROWTH.

CANDIDATE FOR IVF
-BOTH FALLOPIAN TUBES ABSENT OR BLOCKED DUE TO SURGERY, ECTOPIC PREGNANCY OR INFECTION
-ENDOMETRIOSIS, REDUCED SPERM COUNT AND MOTILITY
-WHEN ALL OTHER TREATMENT SUCH AS OVULATION INDUCTION AND INTRA UTERINE INSEMINATION HAVE PROVEN UNSUCCESSFUL
-PATIENTS WITH UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY
-PATIENTS WHO HAVE FAILED TO GET PREGNANT INSPITE OF ALL ROUTINE TREATMENT FOR INFERTILITY
-PATIENTS WHO WANT TO GET PREGNANT BY THE PROCEDURES OF EMBRYO AND EGG DONATION
-ADVANCED FEMALE AGE (38 AND ABOVE)

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