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In-Vitro Maturation |
05 Jan 2007 |
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A Cheaper and Safer Alternative to IVF?
Nearly 30,000 women undergo IVF treatment each year. The procedure involves a costly regime of hormonal drugs, which are not without side effects, ranging from mild nausea to the potentially damaging Ovarian Hyper Stimulation Syndrome. Doctors in Denmark have been involved in developing a new technique that offers a cheaper and safer alternative to conventional fertility treatment. It is called IVM, or in-vitro maturation, and it involves harvesting immature eggs and growing them outside the body in the laboratory. The method reduces the need to pump women with the hormones that are required to mature the eggs in the ovaries.
Carolyn hears from Professor Svend Lindenberg, from the Nordica Fertility Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark about IMF. And she talks to Dr Geeta Nargund, Head of Reproductive Medicine at St. George’s Hospital in London about the prospects for the treatment being adopted by the NHS.Infertility Network UK
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