New hope with new IVF treatment
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 8:03 am
Women battling infertility may have new hope after British scientists had a breakthrough with IVF treatment.
The new technique involves embryo screening that makes it much more likely that a woman using IVF will not only get pregnant, but also have a full term birth.
The trial of the new technique showed that the treatment doubles the likelihood of conception, even for women who are well into their late thirties.
In over two thirds of the cases the embryo was successfully implanted, and over 80% of those women were able to follow the implantation through into a live birth.
The results make the treatment three times as effective as standard IVF in the UK, in which only a quarter of treatments result in conception, and a third of those follow through into live births.
At the moment, 20 babies have been born using the new programme.
Dr. Dagan Wells from Oxford University who developed the embryo screening technique called it ‘astonishing’ and expressed hope that private and NHS clinics will make it standard practice.
Susan Seenan from the Infertility Network in the UK said that any improvements in the success rates of IVF are always important, and even more so when patients are only able to receive one cycle on the NHS.
Last year alone over 37,000 British women underwent IVF treatment, however in standard treatment many of the cycles do not make it through into a live birth, because the foetus miscarries or the embryo does not properly implant itself.
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