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Infertility is neither a disease nor a curse. With advancements in science & technology, nothing is impossible. Infertile couples face lot of pressures in family and society on account of childlessness. They needn't worry any longer. All that they have to do is to see the right doctor (an infertility specialist) at the right time and avail all the advanced medical facilities available that would help them to conceive.

JP Nagar-based Advanced Fertility Centre, Centre for Human Reproduction & Bioscience (P) Ltd have adopted a new technology called "Vitrifications" to freeze and store human embryos, and thus become the first in Karnataka to use this technology successfully for achieving good pregnancies with it.

Vitrification is freezing of embryos & storing them for future use in patients undergoing test tube baby procedure, said Dr. R Nirmala, Clinical & Managing Director, Advanced Fertility Centre. Explaining further, Dr Nirmala stated that while going through ICSI / IVF procedure due to multiple eggs there would be excess embryos. Only three embryos are allowed to transfer at a time. All these days, we used to freeze them by "slow method of freezing". But the biggest disadvantage is this method is a huge wastage of embryos (20-25%) and a low pregnancy rate. This conventional method could cause ice crystal formation within cells of the embryos and hence damage them. To solve this problem, scientific experts were on research since 1980 and introduced this new technique; though, recently it has gained popularity.

Sharing her experience on using Vitrification, Dr Varsha Samson Roy, said leading experts in Europe had adopted this technology for the last three years, with a pregnancy rate of 45%. The survival of eggs and embryos is 90 - 95% and pregnancy rate is surprisingly same as FRESH IVF / ICSI transfer cycle rate. This is a boon, she said.

Advanced Fertility Centre has been adopting this technique since May 2007 and till date have frozen 84 embryos. The embryos wasted by this method have been less than 5%. This means that 95% of embryos were good and capable of achieving a live pregnancy.

Experts at the Advanced Fertility Centre said that the patients who have undergone IVF treatment and have excess embryos can safely vitrify them and use them later to bear a child. Even if they conceive in the fresh treatment cycle, these vitrified embryos can be used if the couples want to have a second child, once their first child is of 2 -3 years old. This not only reduces the cost, but also time and stress that a couple undergoes in each fresh IVF cycle.

According to recently published reports, the use of Vitrification helps couples to postpone having children for their own convenience.

For further details visit the Centre at # 1313, 9th Cross, 27th Main,1st Phase, J.P. Nagar, Bangalore-78, Ph 22447788/89.