Fertility clinic

Fertility Clinic near Chennai, India

Fertility clinics are medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course. Clinics apply a number of diagnosis tests and sometimes very advanced medical treatments to achieve conceptions and pregnancies.

Clinic staff

Fertility clinics are staffed with trained personnel including reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, sonographers, and nurses. Additional specialists from acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and nutrition may also be part of the team.

Diagnosis

Fertility clinics look to both males and females for diagnosis of fertility problems. Diagnosis has shown that fertility problems arise 35% of the time from males, 35% from female, 20% from combined issues, and 10% from unexplained causes. For the male, semen collection is a standard diagnostic test to ascertain problems with the semen quality, while females may undergo a number of tests including an ovulation analysis, x-ray of fallopian tubes and uterus, and laparoscopy.^[1] They may also perform ultrasounds by a sonographer and advanced pregnancy tests.

Treatment

Treatment may include ovulation induction, surgical interventions, artificial insemination, such as intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), or the use of an egg donor^[2] or a sperm donor. In vitro fertilization is the most well known of the assisted reproductive technology procedures performed at a fertility clinic.

Comparing clinics

The Centers for Disease Control requires outcome data be reported to the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) which is the organization that compiles statistics.^[3] Fertility clinics are often compared by these IVF success rates. However, it's important to note that SART puts a caution at bottom of each report that reads "Patient characteristics vary among programs; therefore, these data should not be used for comparing clinics." A consultation with many fertility clinics is always a good option to get a more complete comparison for a patients specific situation and needs.

In fiction

Medical dramas set in a fertility clinic include "Inconceivable" which ran for two episodes in 2005 before being cancelled, and "The Family Man", a British series in three parts. Furthermore, Private Practice is set in a clinic that offers fertility services to a large extent.

References

↑ How is Infertility Diagnosed? - American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
↑ Clinic Services - Conceptions Reproductive Associates of Colorado
↑ Patient Benefits - Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)

Assisted reproductive technology

Infertility	Female Male Fertility clinic Fertility testing Fertility tourism

Fertility medication	Estrogen antagonists aromatase inhibitor clomifene FSH GnRH agonists Gonadotropins menotropins hCG

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) and expansions	Assisted zona hatching Autologous endometrial coculture Cytoplasmic transfer Embryo transfer Gestational carrier In vitro maturation Intracytoplasmic sperm injection Oocyte selection Ovarian hyperstimulation Preimplantation genetic diagnosis Snowflake children Transvaginal ovum retrieval Zygote intrafallopian transfer

Other methods	Artificial insemination sperm donation Cryopreservation embryos oocyte ovarian tissue semen Gamete intrafallopian transfer Reproductive surgery vasectomy reversal Semen collection Sex selection Surrogacy

Donation	Donor registration Donor Sibling Registry Egg donation Embryo Sperm Sperm bank

Ethics	Accidental incest Religious response to ART Mitochondrial donation

In fiction	See subsection in sperm donation Reproduction and pregnancy in speculative fiction

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