ertility Treatments Infertility is relatively common; it occurs in about 11 percent of reproductive age couples. Fortunately, with help from today's fertility treatments and advanced reproductive technologies, more than 80 percent of couples with infertility problems will get pregnant. Basic Infertility Treatments Most Common Most couples will conceive with "first level" infertility treatments s ...

Symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease Some women with pelvic inflammatory disease don’t have symptoms. For the women who do have symptoms, these can include: pain in the lower abdomen (the most common symptom) pain in the upper abdomen fever painful sex painful urination irregular bleeding increased or foul-smelling vaginal discharge tiredness Pelvic inflammatory disease can cause mild or moder ...

HOW DO FROZEN EMBRYOS LIVE: As we have learned from our patients’ comments, they know very little about how frozen embryos live. Some imagine walls full of shelves with little mini-bunks, others imagine rooms like huge fridges, others little capsules placed in beehive-like structures… truth is, they’re microscopic so they virtually take up no space. In one of the containers there’s space for 10, 0 ...

Fallopian Tube Recanalization Procedure Fallopian tube recanalization Photo Credit: Arizona State University The procedure is done under sterile conditions to avoid the possibility of introducing infection. The overall time to do the procedure is about a half an hour, most of which is spent in getting you comfortable, readying the equipment, and cleaning the skin. The actual time spent in evaluat ...

Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment Hyperemesis gravidarum is a condition characterized by severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and electrolyte disturbance. Mild cases are treated with dietary changes, rest, and antacids. More severe cases often require a stay in the hospital so that the mother can receive fluid and nutrition through an intravenous line (IV). DO NOT take any m ...

Frozen Embryo Transfer vs. Fresh Embryo Transfer A fresh embryo transfer occurs in the same cycle as the IVF cycle. The eggs are retrieved and fertilized in the lab. The embryos are allowed to develop and are then transferred back into the woman’s uterus around 5-6 days after the retrieval. A frozen embryo transfer is a little bit different. In this type of cycle, a woman undergoes IVF, her eggs a ...

FROZEN EMBRYO THAWING AND TRANSFER (FET) The treatment to establish a pregnancy using frozen embryos has been called a frozen embryo transfer cycle or simply an FET cycle. The number of embryos recommended for transfer will be made in consultation with your physician. Most commonly it is one and sometimes two and rarely more. Some factors that influence their recommendation include: the age of t ...

What is infertility? Most experts define infertility as not being able to get pregnant after at least one year of trying. Women who are able to get pregnant but then have repeat miscarriages are also said to be infertile. Pregnancy is the result of a complex chain of events. In order to get pregnant: A woman must release an egg from one of her ovaries (ovulation). The egg must go through a fall ...