Post Tagged with: "ICSI"
Male fertility and ICSI risks
ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, is a relatively recent development in the fertility world. It is used in combination with IVF, and was first introduced in 1992. With ICSI, one sperm is directly injected into one egg in a lab setting, in order to fertilize it. This has offered a solution to couples for whom male [...]
How effective is ICSI?
If you have been told that you (or your partner) suffer from a low sperm count, often coupled with abnormal shapes and speeds (morphology and motility), and that Intracystoplasmic Sperm Injection is the best way for you to have a baby, you are of course keen to find out as much as possible about how [...]
Who benefits from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
Assisted fertility techniques can be extremely confusing for laypeople. If you know what IVF is, but have not heard of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) before, you are one of many. What does intracytoplasmic sperm injection involve, how does it differ from invitro fertilization, and most of all, who benefits from this treatment? If you have [...]
Best fertility clinics for male infertility
Infertility is on the rise – approximately 15 percent of all couples now struggles to get pregnant. Statistics show that male infertility is partly responsible for 50 percent of those cases, and solely responsible for 30 percent of all infertility. Are you among those couples for whom male infertility is preventing you from conceiving a [...]
IVF Ethics: Infertile Fathers Making Infertile Sons?
Only the strong should survive is the idea that Darwin was promoting, but with expensive IVF being a procedure that bypasses the “survival of the fittest” sperm of all qualities are purposefully injected into a female’s egg. Consequently this means that not the healthiest sperm creates the pregnancy. When I think too much about this, [...]
Fertility Clinics of Illinois
The largest network of fertility specialists providing services such as in vitro fertilization in the state of Illinois is Fertility Centers of Illinois. Located in Chicago, Fertility Centers of Illinois offers access to the very latest in technology, along with programs for egg donation, surrogacy, mind-body healing, and financial counseling. Because they also sponsor clinical [...]
IVF and ICSI Increases the Risk of Stillbirth … Or Not?
Recently a research was conducted by Dr Kirsten Wisborg and colleagues from the Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, that suggests women who conceive using fertility treatment such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) run a fourfold higher risk of a stillbirth. Study was supported by grants [...]
Fertility Clinics in New York
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has been offered in New York since 1978, almost as soon as it was first offered in the United Kingdom. There is no greater concentration of choices that accommodate a variety of family budgets, lifestyle choices, and work schedules than the fertility clinics in New York City that are within relatively [...]
Infertility Treatments (IVF/ICSI) Increase the Risk of Stillbirths
Recently a study was published in Human Reproduction, Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal. Study was conducted by Danish scientists. Study correlates an infertility treatment with increased incidence of stillbirths: study suggest findings that show that women who conceived naturally or after fertility treatments that did not involve IVF (in vitro fertilization) or ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm [...]
