IVF TREATMENT

INDEX
1. Definition
2. Reasoning
3. Stages
4. Comparison
5. Cost
 DEFINITION
• A medical procedure where an egg is
fertilized by sperm in a test tube or
anywhere outside the body.
• unprotected sex for one year, not
pregnant

Fertility Facts:
Responsibility: 35% female infertility
35% male
20% both
10% unknown
 REASONING FOR IVF
1) You have absent or blocked
fallopian tubes.
2) Your partner has severe
male infertility.
3) You have another type of
infertility
4) You’re older
5) Your ovaries have failed
prematurely 
6) You have a chromosomal
abnormality or inherited
genetic disease, etc.
  5 STAGES OF IVF
Step 1: Medication. The
woman is given injection
hormones to stimulate
healthy egg development.
Step 2: Harvest the eggs.
Step 3: Fertilization.
Step 4: Embryo culture.
Step 5: Embryo transfer.
 COMPARISON
Advantages Disadvantages
• Safe track record • It may be unsuccessful
• can help to diagnose • Multiple pregnancy
fertilisation problems • higher chance of ectopic
• Unused embryos can be pregnancy
donated to research  • treatment can be expensive
• Embryos can be used to
screen for inherited diseases.
 COST OF IVF TREATMENT
• IVF treatment has 2
cycles.
• The IVF Cost in
India (including all
surgical and diagnostic
procedures, test and
treatments) normally
ranges between 1 to
1.25 Lakh per cycle.
• So basically it ranges
upto an average of 3lakh
rupess for total
treatment.
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