CONVENTIONAL (TRADITIONAL) IVF
Conventional or Traditional IVF is the standard IVF and is used in 99% of IVF centers all over the world.
It is the process of collecting eggs and sperm then manually fertilizing them, outside the body, in a laboratory dish. The addition of a sperm to an egg produces an embryo.
Good quality embryos are then transferred back into the uterus which ultimately implant and grow into a baby. RFC’s success rates of 59% surpasses national averages of 43% with tailored treatments for every patients especially those with low AMH, high FSH, PCOS, or those who are poor responders to conventional IVF. Since 2020, RFC has been reporting highest success rates yearly in the country with a 68% success rate for IVF with PGT and 69% for women under 35. Emphasis on affordability and personalized care is our main mission.
Dr Merhi has helped the oldest woman in the USA get pregnant by IVF using her own eggs at age 51. RFC has helped the highest number of women in their early 50’s and late 40’s get pregnant using their own eggs by IVF.
IVF involves 3 main steps:
1. OVARIAN STIMULATION AND MONITORING:
To increase the chances for success, a patient usually takes injections for 10 to 14 days in order to increase the number of mature eggs produced in one month. Frequent monitoring (blood draw and ultrasound) is usually performed to monitor the response of the ovaries to the dose of medications given, thus allowing the physician to adjust the dosage appropriately.
2. EGG COLLECTION:
While Almost all other fertility give IV sedation to put patients to sleep for the egg collection, patients at RFC have the option to have local anesthesia only (i. e., awake) for their egg collection. The physician extracts mature eggs via ultrasound guidance. Egg retrival is a minimally invasive procedure that normally takes less then 10 minutes. patients typically can resume their normal activities on the next day
3. FERTILIZATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER
Embryologists fertilize the eggs with sperm in the embryology laboratory to produce embryos. The embryos take 3 to 7 days for them to develop. The physican will transfer the healthy embtyo(s) back into the uterus, with the goal of implantation in the uterus. This procedure usually does not involve any anesthesia and done with ultrasound to guide a small catheter through the cervix and deposit the embryo(s) in the best location of the uterus. The procedure takes only a few minutes and there is no recovery time. A pregnancy test is performed approximately 9-12 days after the embryo transfer to check for pregnancy. The remaining viable embryos can be frozen for future use..
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