Reproductology
Reproductology is more than an IVF procedure. We will tell you in which cases the decision to seek help from top clinics will be the right one.
For whom are reproductive technologies necessary?
- Infertility (both partners can be diagnosed, or only one partner can be diagnosed)
- When both spouses in a couple are healthy, but conception still does not occur (psychological infertility)
- If you want to postpone the birth of a child for a while, while preserving sex cells (eggs and sperm) or embryos in advance – delayed motherhood
- When a woman’s ovarian reserve is depleted (the ovaries have run out of eggs) or a man’s spermatogenesis is impaired
- When it is necessary to use surrogacy
- If you wish to conceive using donor material – in the case of a single parent
What procedures are used in world fertility?
Advanced clinics use assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to produce a healthy embryo outside the mother’s body.
VRTs include:
- In vitro fertilization (IVF): In vitro conception
- Sperm and oocyte donation
- Surrogacy: When a particular couple’s embryo is carried in another woman’s body
- Transfer of embryos into the uterine cavity
- Genetic testing (preimplantation diagnosis of hereditary diseases)
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
- Cryopreservation/vitrification
Where to use assisted reproductive technologies?
The unique techniques used in modern ART protocols vary from country to country and have a number of peculiarities. Before choosing a country for treatment, it is important to find out whether the procedures to be used are allowed in that country.
| ECO | Surrogacy | Donation | Genetic testing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where prohibited | In Poland, the number of embryos is limited (no more than 5) and their further utilization is prohibited. The remaining embryos are sent to the donation program | France, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, some US states, Italy, China | China, Germany (only egg donation is prohibited) Sweden, Norway, Italy, UK (anonymous sperm donation is prohibited) | HT for sex determination (without medical reasons) is prohibited in: UK, Germany, Italy, Korea, Japan In Israel, the National Commission decides on sex determination on a case-by-case basis. |
| Where is the most developed | Turkey, Spain, Austria, South Korea | California, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, Canada, South Korea | The leader in egg donation is Spain Sperm donation is developed in: Austria, Denmark, France, Israel. | According to the European ESHRE registry, Italy and Spain were the leaders in HT implementation |
Artificial intelligence in the field of reproductive medicine
The introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in reproduction is one of the main features of the development of global health care. Oocyte and embryo vitrification technology, preimplantation and genetic testing have significantly increased pregnancy rates, but embryo quality assessment has received indirect attention.
With the help of AI in global medicine, this problem has been solved: a deep neural network called STORK has been developed that automates the process of infertility treatment in terms of embryo selection and transfer. It uses a frame-by-frame visualization method to assess embryo development and select the best one for transfer.
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