Contents:
- Medical Video: What is the meaning and reasons behind Implantation Failure? - Dr. Nirmala T S
- The cause of the number of IVF programs that were unsuccessful
- Embryo DNA testing can increase the chances of success in IVF programs
- Mitograde tests can determine which embryos can grow well
Medical Video: What is the meaning and reasons behind Implantation Failure? - Dr. Nirmala T S
Some couples who find it difficult to get offspring, try to do IVF programs. However, the cost of IVF programs is not cheap and affordable, making other couples reluctant to do this program. Plus, the success of IVF programs is not necessarily successful. It is known that the success of IVF is only around 20-35%, although this depends on the condition of the eggs and sperm used.
However, you and your partner can be more relieved now, because a new study states that the program can succeed up to 80%. Then how do researchers increase the success of IVF? Here's the explanation.
The cause of the number of IVF programs that were unsuccessful
IVF program can indeed be a solution for couples who have difficulty in having children. In the process, the medical team will take a female egg and male sperm and then bring it together outside the woman's body to form a zygote (the result of fertilization of sperm and egg cells). Furthermore, the zygote will be planted in the womb of a woman, so that it can develop into an embryo (the fetus) until the fetus grows strongly in the womb.
However, it turns out this program is not very easy to do, there are many risks that might occur when the process takes place, so it is not uncommon to make IVF programs fail. One reason that can frustrate a program that is quite draining this bag is the 'quality' of the embryo that is not good enough. Either the embryo or the fetus is weak or has abnormal DNA, so it cannot survive to grow.
Embryo DNA testing can increase the chances of success in IVF programs
But, you and your partner don't despair, because recently there have been studies that state that DNA testing in an embryo can increase the success of IVF programs by up to 75-80%. This statement comes from a study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and Genetics Laboratory Reprogenetics in the UK.
In conducting this research, experts involved as many as 100 women who carried out IVF programs with their partners. Then before the embryo is planted in the mother's womb, the embryo or the fetus will first be examined for DNA.
This DNA examination called MitoGrade was able to increase the success of IVF in the 100 women. Even the researchers stated that this test also adds to the chances of getting pregnant for women over the age of 30.
Mitograde tests can determine which embryos can grow well
This test can measure whether the embryo produced from the IVF program can survive growing well in the womb. From this test the medical team can find out which embryos have abnormal and normal DNA. An abnormal embryo with DNA has a smaller chance than a normal embryo to survive and develop until it becomes a fetus.
In addition, the researchers also stated that the older a woman is, eating will be more likely to produce embryos with abnormal DNA. This is related to the reproductive system aging process in women.
