In Vitro Success Rate
Dr. James Madden was the medical director for the Presbyterian-Harris ARTS Program from 1982 to 2007. Dr. Meintjes was the program and laboratory director of the Presbyterian-Harris ARTS Program from 1998 to 2007. Therefore, the statistics published by SART and the CDC for the Presbyterian-Harris ARTS Program through 2005 (last published as one program) and by individual practices using the Presbyterian-Harris facility in 2006 were still generated under the medical and laboratory direction of Drs. Madden and Meintjes. Similar success rates should be expected at the Frisco Institute for Reproductive Medicine’s new facility in Frisco. Because the medical characteristics of patients and approaches to treatment vary from clinic to clinic, comparing success rates between IVF programs may not be meaningful or accurate. However, when studying IVF success rates, emphasis should be placed on age group, live births and cycle starts.
This is a photograph of ultra-fine salt crystals under a phase-contrast microscope. From left to right one can observe images of an unfertilized egg, 8-cell embryos, an expanded blastocyst, hatching blastocyst with shell, and a completely hatched blastocyst. Considering the three-dimentional shape of the small grains of salt, approximately 100 eight-cell embryos may fit into one such grain of salt.