Senior Embryologist Ferhath describes in this video a brand new technique – PICSI. It’s marvelous in being able to select mature and good quality sperms for the ICSI procedure. The principle behind this ingenious technique is a smear of the egg’s hormone is plastered onto the bottom of the dish. To this hormone only mature… Continue reading PICSI (pronounced as “Pixie”)
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Sister Myrna takes us through the operating theatre
An operating theatre is unnerving especially if you’ve never been to one before. Sister Myrna walks you through the process of what happens when patients come into the Conceive theatres, what to expect and the overall experience.
Pre-marital Counseling
Premarital Screening and Counseling for prevalent infectious diseases and common genetic disorders is becoming more and more common and widespread today. Family physicians, reproductive biologists and Gynaecologists together play an important role early in the diagnosis of genetic disorders and therefore prevention of abnormal pregnancies or recurrent early pregnancy losses Through pre marital counseling, couples… Continue reading Pre-marital Counseling
Anesthesia for In Vitro Fertilization
Broadly speaking IVF involves the following steps: Ovarian stimulation Egg collection Sperm processing & Fertilization & embryo transfer Rule of Anesthesiologist: The vaginal ultrasound probe for egg retrieval forms one of the most stressful and painful components of entire assisted reproductive treatment. Pain during oocyte retrieval is cause by the puncture of the vaginal skin and… Continue reading Anesthesia for In Vitro Fertilization
Male Infertility
Baby is a divine gift from GOD to mankind to be equally enjoyed both by a man &woman. Approximately 15 percent of couples are infertile. This means they aren’t able to conceive a child even though they’ve had frequent, unprotected sexual intercourse for a year or longer. In about half of these couples, male infertility… Continue reading Male Infertility
Minimal sedation maximized
Minimal Sedation (Anxiolysis) – a drug-induced (produced) state during which patients respond normally to oral commands. Although mental function and coordination may be impaired, respiratory (breathing) and cardiovascular (blood pressure, pulse) functions are unaffected. Moderate Sedation [Conscious (Awake) Sedation] – a drug-generated depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully to oral commands, either alone or accompanied… Continue reading Minimal sedation maximized
Infertility Injections
Most patients aren’t aware that in an IVF cycle a woman may be required to take several injections of medications and hormones. Staff nurse Reela explains this slightly traumatizing aspect of infertility medicine and how she helps patients overcome their fear of needles.
Things you can do yourself to enhance and boost your fertility
Dr. Ruma Bhargava gives us some useful tips and pointers on how to not just maintain our fertility but to even enhance and boost it through simple everyday choices we make. Must watch !
PCOS – Who? What? When? How? Why?
An attractive 29 year old girl (slightly overweight with some acne) and been married for 2 years. She spends half the day with children in a nursery (She’s teaches at the nursery) and yearns to have children of her own. She has been trying to conceive and has visited a gynaecologist . The reports are… Continue reading PCOS – Who? What? When? How? Why?
An Endometriosis End!
Part1 A disease of dis-ease, the day a young girl starts her journey of reproductive life ,a dilemma leading to pathologies till the fecundity decline. In history characteristics of disease described at least as far back as 1600 BCE. Schrön described a “female disorder in which ulcers appear in the abdomin, bladder, intestines and outside… Continue reading An Endometriosis End!