Gyms, swimming pools, dance schools have been closed for months now. Wellness enthusiasts as well as those who had finally decided to do healthy physical activity to feel better, correct ailments or get in shape, found themselves at home overnight without…
Category: Assisted fertilization
How is a woman’s ovarian reserve determined?
Understanding the woman’s ovarian reserve is useful for understanding her chances of conceiving by natural means and the response to stimulation protocols in assisted reproduction treatments. The ovarian reserve generally indicates the capacity of the ovary to produce oocytes capable of…
Ovulation stimulation drugs and protocols in II level assisted fertilization
When a couple undergoes IVF treatment, whether it is IVF or ICSI, it is important to be able to obtain as many oocytes as possible. Here because. The extracted oocytes will be used to try to obtain as many embryos as possible .…
What are the success rates of an assisted reproduction treatment?
Very often women who have unsuccessfully undergone assisted reproduction treatment write to us asking us why it was not successful. We forwarded the question to our fertility geneticist, Dr. Daniela Zuccarello. Here is what he explained to us: The PMA success statistics…
What to do (and not to do) after an embryo transfer?
Do I have to rest after the transfer? Can I drive or travel by train and plane? How to sleep after the transfer? Here are all the answers. Each assisted reproduction center gives patients very detailed instructions on what to do and what not…
Preparation of the endometrium for embryo transfer (fresh or frozen): how does it happen?
The transfer of fresh or frozen embryos or blastocysts into the uterus is the final step of the assisted reproduction treatment started with hormonal stimulation . The transfer takes place transcervically (i.e. through the neck of the uterus) by means of a special catheter, and can be carried…
Preserving female fertility. What do you think? Take the survey
What does it mean to preserve female fertility? This is a very broad theme, on the one hand we can think of all those precautions that allow us to take care of our well-being. Paying attention to what we eat…
Why freeze oocytes as a prevention of one’s fertility?
If you were 20, 25 or 30, would you freeze your eggs? Is this a hypothesis that you would evaluate? As for me, given everything I have read in recent years, if I had a suitable age (less than 34…
A child at 44, is it possible? If yes how? The geneticist answers
Howdy I am writing to her because for weeks my partner and I have been trying to have a child but nothing (I am 44 years old, I am the mother of a 22-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son born…
Heterologous fertilization: the situation in Italy after the abolition of the ban
To clarify the situation in Italy in terms of heterologous fertilization, we asked Dr. Laura Rienzi Embryologist, Director of the PMA Laboratories, GENERA Centers, Rome, Marostica, Umbertide, Naples, for clarification. The point of the situation: Also in Italy, a couple with problems…