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The Infertility
and IVF Center staff eagerly awaits the opportunity to answer any of your questions, address all of your concerns and meet any of your needs.
Our waiting lounge is a comfortable setting for patients preparing to visit
with the doctors and nurses who will be caring for them during their treatment.
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 | Blood draws are
gently performed by a skilled nursing staff. These tests monitor your hormone levels
which enable the doctor to determine the growth of your follicles. |
 |  Conveniently
located within the Center so as to provide immediate access of information to your
physician are the endocrinology and andrology laboratories. |
 | On the day that your follicles have
matured, your eggs will be retrieved from your ovaries through transvaginal ultrasound
guidance. |
 | The eggs are immediately transferred
to a suitable culture medium and incubated for a few hours prior to fertilization. |
 | Following an egg
retrieval procedure, you will remain with us for one or two hours. To rest
comfortably, our nursing staff will provide you with attentive aftercare. |
 | The Infertility
and IVF laboratories are looked after by a board-certified embryologist, and High
Complexity Lab Director who is also a certified lab inspector for the College of American
Pathologists. |
 | Our embryology
laboratory is on-site. It is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art technology to
perform the procedures of in vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete or zygote intrafallopian
transfer(GIFT or ZIFT ), percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration (PESA), intracytoplasmic
sperm injection (ICSI), assisted hatching (AH), and cyropreservation of sperm, embryos,
and testicular or ovarian tissue. |
Approximately
3 days after an egg retrieval, the embryos are transferred back into the patient's uterus.
A pregnancy test is done 2 weeks later. |