theblackalchemist Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 Test boosts chances of IVF success Anew test that can detect if the eggs produced by a woman are defective may prove to be a boon for wannabe mothers who opt for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Till now, women would routinely subject themselves to a series of failed IVF attempts without realising they carried defective eggs, which would produce abnormal children. It’s a technique that would have saved 49-year-old Umesh Chandrashekhar and his 42-year-old wife five failed IVF attempts. Three of their IVF tries were in the UK and two in Coimbatore. “We started the procedure in 1990 in Bristol, UK, where I was posted. After coming back to India, we even tried unsuccessfully with donor eggs. I’ve ended up spending Rs 15 lakh on this but to no end,” says Chandrashekhar, a Delhi-based marketing executive. The couple might have been spared the trouble, expense and heartache of repeated IVF attempts had there been a way to ascertain the viability of eggs. But this new technique now available in the city may change all that. Medical experts at Delhi’s Phoenix Hospital explain the procedure as follows: “A healthy egg contains a spindle, which holds the complete genetic package. Some eggs don’t contain it. A special imaging system called the spindle view, in use abroad since 2003 and now available in India, makes it easy to check that.” Dr Shivani Gour.... Test boosts chances of IVF success-Health/Sci-The Times of India Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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