Treatment Approaches
- Treatment Introduction
- Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
- Hysteroscopy
- Laparoscopy
- In Vitro Fertilization & Embryo Transfer
- Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
- Embryo Cryopreservation
- Assisted Hatching
- Ovulation Induction
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
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Embryo Cryopreservation
Embryo Cryopreservation has proven invaluable as part of the effort to limit the fetal/newborn and maternal complications related to multiple gestations resulting from infertility treatments. Methods that temporarily and reversibly suspend development of an embryo (cryopreservation) have been instrumental in leading to greater acceptance of a single embryo transfer. All of our patients that accept a single blastocyst transfer will have at least one additional blastocyst frozen. Our pioneering experience in this area indicates that after the transfer of a previously cryopreserved blastocyst in those instances in which a live birth did not result from a single blasocyst transfer is statistically equivalent to the chances of becoming pregnant when transferring two blastocysts at the outset. Dr. Meintjes is considered a renowned innovator and an international authority regarding this concept and the laboratory methodologies that make it possible.
