A cryopreserved embryo can also be a donor embryo. There are many possibilities with donor embryos, including full embryo donation, the donation of an egg that can be inseminated with a partner's sperm, or the donation of sperm that can be inseminated into a partner's egg.
A "fresh" embryo isn't necessarily preferred, but it can be helpful in some cases. For example, in younger patients when there is not suspected chromosomal issue or in older patients who have embryos that didn't make it to testing in the lab that might have a better chance in utero without testing.
In this case, all embryos are cryopreserved and transferred in a FET cycle in the next month or so. If you have certain health conditions or circumstances, you might want to consider FET to help you get pregnant.
One or several embryos can result from IVF, but it's only safe to transfer one or two at a time. You may have cryopreserved embryos after a fresh IVF transfer fails. Transferring multiple embryos increases the risk of a high-order multiple pregnancy like triplets or quadruplets.
To reduce this risk, your doctor might recommend an elective single embryo transfer eSET if you have a good prognosis. You can do another fresh, full IVF cycle, or you can transfer one or two of your previously cryopreserved embryos.
The most cost-effective option would be to transfer one of your previously frozen embryos. If you decide you want to give your IVF-conceived child a sibling and your fresh embryo transfer resulted in your prior pregnancy, you might still have embryos in cryopreservation. Your could also choose to do another fresh cycle and not use your cryopreserved embryos, though this is a more expensive option. You might have embryos to use because you froze them all to begin with for the testing.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD and preimplantation genetic screening PGS are assisted reproductive technologies that screen embryos for specific genetic disease or defects. This is done through a biopsy on day three or five post-fertilization, post egg retrieval. Sometimes, the results get back in time to do a fresh embryo transfer. However, if a day five biopsy is done, or the genetic testing is complex and requires more time, all embryos that were biopsied will be cryopreserved.
Some researchers have theorized that the fertility drugs that are best for stimulating the ovaries do not necessarily create ideal implantation conditions in the uterus. In turn, this could mean that a fresh transfer might be less likely to result in a viable, healthy pregnancy.
To avoid this outcome, all embryos are cryopreserved three to five days after egg retrieval. The next month or in the month after, when the endometrium has had a chance to form without the influence of ovarian stimulating drugs, a frozen embryo transfer can take place. During that FET cycle, your doctor may prescribe hormonal medications to enhance endometrial receptivity especially if you do not ovulate on your own.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome OHSS is a risk of fertility drugs that can in severe and rare cases lead to loss of fertility and even death. If your risk of OHSS appears to be high before a fresh embryo transfer, it might be canceled. When this happens, all the embryos will be cryopreserved. Cancellation might be necessary because pregnancy can exacerbate OHSS.
Once you have recovered from OHSS, a frozen embryo transfer cycle can be scheduled. Fresh embryo transfer might also be canceled for other reasons. For example, you might not be able to have FET if you get the flu or another illness after egg retrieval but before transfer. If the endometrial conditions do not look good on the ultrasound, your doctor may recommend cryopreserving all embryos, then scheduling FET-IVF for a later date.
Some couples choose to donate their unused embryos to another infertile couple. If you decide to use an embryo donor, your cycle will be a frozen embryo transfer.
Studies have found that pregnancy rates are better with frozen embryo transfers than with fresh embryo transfers. Other research has indicated that pregnancies conceived after frozen embryo transfer may have better outcomes. However, most studies have been done in younger women with a good prognosis, which means it's unclear what people over age 35 or with a poor prognosis could expect. More high-quality research needs to be done to determine whether FET-IVF is more likely to lead to a live birth than a fresh transfer, and if so, what the reasons might be.
One theory is that the fertility drugs that are ideal for ovarian stimulation are less than ideal for endometrial formation. This means that stimulating the ovaries in one cycle with a plan to transfer the embryos during a non-stimulating cycle might be better for implantation. The second possibility might be that the embryos that survive cryopreservation are stronger than those that do not. A woman can freeze her own eggs or choose to use donor eggs. The eggs are transferred in a later cycle to help the woman recover from her current IVF cycle and reduce the effect of desynchronization.
During the menstrual cycle, estrogen levels naturally peak just before ovulation. This rise in estrogen triggers ovulation and causes the ovaries to begin producing progesterone. Progesterone then triggers the development of the endometrial lining of the uterus. For a pregnancy to develop, a fertilized egg needs to implant in the endometrial lining and begin to grow. Because the body produces progesterone in response to ovulation, in ideal conditions, the endometrial lining develops at the right rate to nurture the fertilized egg.
That synchronization between the progesterone response and endometrial lining development creates the best environment for implantation. However, during IVF treatment , the ovaries are stimulated, and estrogen levels peak at much higher levels than in natural cycles.
This artificially-induced peak in estrogen triggers progesterone production. Sometimes, progesterone levels increase too early, and the endometrial lining develops too quickly to support the embryos. This desynchronization between an embryo and endometrial lining reduces the likelihood of a successful implantation.
One reason why IVF patients take medications: to suppress progesterone production. No anesthesia is required for the embryo transfer. You will be discharged after resting for 20 minutes. Patients undergoing FET may not require hormonal supplementation when we document normal follicular development and ovulation.
Unlike the initial IVF-ET procedure during which the progesterone-producing granulosa cells are aspirated, those cells remain functional within the corpus luteum during your FET cycle. Progesterone supplementation may be administered to patients with ovulatory dysfunction or luteal phase inadequacy. In these cases, progesterone injections or suppositories begin before the embryo transfer and continue until the pregnancy test is performed.
We will usually perform a serum pregnancy test days following the embryo transfer. If the test is positive, we may measure the serum progesterone level and recommend that you continue taking progesterone for several additional weeks.
If the pregnancy test is negative, progesterone is discontinued and a period begins in a few days. If the pregnancy test is positive, we will perform a vaginal sonogram about three weeks later. At this point, we are able to identify the number of embryos and can often see a heartbeat in the developing embryo.
The risk of pregnancy loss is low after this developmental milestone. If the FET procedure is unsuccessful, you should schedule a consultation with your physician to review the procedure and discuss future treatment options.
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