Intravaginal Culture: Should You Consider this “New” Fertility Treatment?
How does intravaginal culture compare to IUI and IVF and who should consider this new fertility treatment? Our guest is Dr. John Park, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist with Carolina Conceptions.
Hit the Highlights
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Option for fertility treatment: oral medication to stimulate ovulation, IUI with or without injectable medications, IVF and IVC.
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What are the difference in these treatment options and who should consider them?
- May have heard of it as INVOcell because they manufacture the device?
- What is the IVC process?
- Are there criteria of who is best suited for intravaginal culture?
- What are the advantages to using intravaginal culture?
- How much does a typical IVC cycle cost compared to an IUI or IVF cycle. Where do the cost savings come from? Medication, incubation
- Do you use the standard stimulation protocol or do you use a minimal stimulation.
- How many embryos can be grown in the INVOcell device?
- Are there advantages for using a woman’s vagina as an incubator over using a laboratory incubator?
- What do you do with any extra eggs that are retrieved?
- How do pregnancy rates for IVC cycle compare to IUI or IVF cycle?
- Does IVC produce the same percentage of embryos that are of the quality to transfer?
- Are embryos from IVC transferred at the blastocyst stage or earlier?
- Use of INVOcell with donor sperm by single women, lesbian couples, and heterosexual couples with male factor infertility.
- In your experience, are there some psychological benefits to IVC over other forms of fertility treatment.
- Use with lesbian couples to allow both to participate.
- How does intravaginal culture compare for multiple pregnancies?
- How does IVC compare for creating excess embryos?
- Can IVC improve access to care.
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