TREATMENTS
Ovulation Induction & Cycle Monitoring
Consists in inducting the ovulation and follow up with some ultrasound exams, which will enable to identify the ideal timing for sexual intercourse.
Indication: Women patients with irregular ovulation or diffiiculties to ovulate.
Egg and Sperm Donation
Egg and sperm donation are most commonly used when the patients are unable to produce their own eggs or sperms. The patient will accept to receive the egg or sperm donated and it will be fertilised with the partner´s gamets. After the fertilisation, the embryo will be tranferred to the patient´s uterine cavity, and will be able to carry on pregnancy normally.
Indication:
- Ovarian or testicles failures
- Premature menopause
- Previous surgery or chemotherapy
- Patients who are in a same sex couple
- Patients who are single.
Egg freezing or cryopreservation
Consists on follicular induction and cryopreservation of the collected eggs for future use.
Indication:
- Patients who will be submitted to chemotherapy
- Patients who will be submitted to surgeries
- Patients who, for personal or professional reasons, decide to postpone pregnancy and wishes to have better results in the future.
Intrauterine insemination
The treatment where previous selected sperm is placed inside the uterine cavity of the woman that wants o get pregnant.
Indication:
- Men whose sperm have mild motility problems.
- Women with a mild endometriosis,
- Women that produce antisperm antibodies.
- Women who want single motherhood
Sperm freezing
Consists in collecting sperm and cryopreservate for future use.
Indication:
- Patients with testicular cancer
- Patients who are about to have a vasectomy and want sperm available in case they change their mind about having (more) children.
- Patients who will be submitted to chemotherapy
- Patients who won't be able to be present on the day of the partner treatment
- Patients with low sperm count or
the quality of the sperm is deteriorating.
- Patients who have a condition, or are facing medical treatment for a condition that may affect your fertility.
- Men who are at risk of injury or death (for example, members of the Armed Forces who are being deployed to a war zone).
- You are about to undergo a sex change operation.