Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL) or Pregnancy of Unspecified Location is the clumsy term we use for patients during the early days of their IVF pregnancy when the beta HCG blood test is positive, but its too early to do an ultrasound scan to find out whether the preg...

It's completely normal for IVF patients to have multiple fears, worries, and anxieties both before and during their IVF treatment. This is partly because there is so much they don't understand about the medical minutiae; and partly because they are not sure what the out...

When a patient goes to an IVF doctor for a consultation, the standard ritual is that the junior doctor or assistant will fire off a list of questions that the patient is expected to answer, so the senior doctor can review them, make a diagnosis, and then prescribe treat...

The only outcome IVF patients care about is whether they get a healthy baby as a result of their treatment. Yes, this is the only clinical outcome that actually matters, but we also need to remember that this final outcome is not something that is in the doctors control...

One of the most important results for an infertile patient is the blood test for beta HCG ( human chorionic gonadotropin), which tells her definitively whether she is pregnant or not. Its a simple test to interpret, which is why I get disheartened when I find that most...

An embryo must break out or 'hatch' from its outer layer, known as the 'zona pellucida,' in order to attach to the uterine lining and implant in the uterus. What exactly is Laser Assist Hatching? Prior to embryo transfer, a short laser beam is fired on the zona pelluc...

Saiprasad Gundeti, Chief Embryologist, Malpani Infertility Clinic Pvt. Ltd.         An embryo must break out or 'hatch' from its outer layer, known as the 'zona pellucida,' in order to attach to the uterine lining and implant in the uterus. What exactly is...

Lots of patients know that the commonest cause of IVF failure is a failure of the embryo to implant. We also know that the commonest reason for implantation failure is a genetic defect in the embryo. This is why it seems very tempting to do pre-implantation genetic scre...

PCOS is an extremely common cause of infertility , but most of these patients are often the recipients of very poor quality treatment , as a result of which they end up without a baby , because they don't get the right medical care . The issue begins with misdiagnosis,...

Many parents are worried that IVF babies will be weak or abnormal, because the embryos are being cultured in the IVF lab, and this artificial process will cause the babies to be handicapped. The reality is that IVF babies are much smarter than most bedroom babies. T...