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IVF Treatment
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Index

• Definition
• Reasoning
• Stages
• Comparison
• Cost

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Definition

• A medical procedure where an egg is fertilized by
  sperm in a test tube or anywhere outside the
  body.
• unprotected sex for one year, not pregnant
• Fertility Facts
• Responsibility 35 female infertility
• 35 male
• 20 both
• 10 unknown

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Reasoning For IVF

• You have absent or blocked fallopian tubes.
• Your partner has severe male infertility.
• You have another type of infertility
• Youre older
• Your ovaries have failed prematurely 
• You have a chromosomal abnormality or inherited
  genetic disease, etc.

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 5 stages of IVF

• Step 1 Medication. The woman is given injection
  hormones to stimulate healthy egg development.
• Step 2 Harvest the eggs.
• Step 3 Fertilization.
• Step 4 Embryo culture.
• Step 5 Embryo transfer.

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Comparison

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Safe track record
• can help to diagnose fertilisation problems
• Unused embryos can be donated to research 
• Embryos can be used to screen for inherited
  diseases.

• It may be unsuccessful
• Multiple pregnancy
• higher chance of ectopic pregnancy
• treatment can be expensive

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Cost of IVF Treatment

• IVF treatment has 2 cycles.
• The IVF Cost in India (including all surgical and
  diagnostic procedures, test and treatments)
  normally ranges between 1 to 1.25 Lakh per cycle.
• So basically it ranges upto an average of 3lakh
  rupess for total treatment.

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