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Infertility Screening

SUHEIL J. MUASHER, MD, FACOG: Whenever we’re faced with an infertility situation, we try to do some tests on the female to know what the problem can be.

For example, we check to know whether the female is ovulating or not. And this could be as simple as instructing her to take her temperature every morning to know whether she’s ovulating or not.

We sometimes do some blood tests especially on the third day of the period to check her reproductive hormones. Another common test that we do is we do an X-ray. It’s a long word called a hysterosalpingogram where we inject dye and test to see whether the Fallopian tubes are open or not. And I actually do this procedure myself but we do it at their radiology department.

Posted on August 4, 2008 3:09PM in Video Transcripts, What To Expect

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Male Factor Infertility Treatments

SUHEIL J. MUASHER, MD, FACOG: One of the first tests that we usually order is a sperm analysis on the male and the reason we do that is that sperm problems are fairly common. We discover a problem maybe 50% percent of the time. And also a sperm analysis is a relatively inexpensive test to do and it’s the only test for the husband to do. So we start with that and if we find a problem, then we try to do work up the male to know what the problem can be.

Very rarely we can give the husband some medications to try to improve the sperm count but most of the time when we have male factor infertility, we offer the couple in-vitro fertilization and that actually works very well in the majority of situations.

Posted on August 4, 2008 3:06PM in Video Transcripts, What To Expect

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IVF Success Rates

SUHEIL J. MUASHER, MD, FACOG: Success rates from in-vitro fertilization can vary quite a bit. It’s dependent on many factors. One of the most important factors is the age of the female. The younger the female is, the more the success rate. And the older she is, the less is the success rate.

And success rates can really vary from as high as maybe 60% to 70% percent to as low as maybe 5% to 10% percent. It also depends on whether the patients have undergone any previous treatments before or not.

If a clinic, for example does in-vitro fertilization on older patients as the primary treatment, they’re probably going to have more success as a clinic that tries simpler treatments first and then only does in-vitro fertilization on the people who fail that treatment.

We want to warn couples on not comparing success rates between different clinics because many factors enter into the equation and people will not be able to distinguish between these different factors.

Posted on August 4, 2008 3:04PM in Video Transcripts, What To Expect

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