A patient asked me for a second opinion after a failed IVF cycle . I asked her to send me photos of her embryos, so I could provide personalised advice. She sent me this email. I tried to get the photos, however this is the reply from the embryologist. Should I be co...
We often see patients who have done an IVF cycle elsewhere, and who get a positive pregnancy test result. They are ecstatic when they are told by the doctor that they're pregnant. However, their HCG levels are usually between 30 mIU/ml - 100 mIU/ml or so, and they neve...
I received the above email from a patient. As you can see, he is a computer engineer, is doing his homework, and is very well organised ! This image highlights the fact that there is so much variation in the advice which IVF doctors give. To add insult injury, except...
I was confronted with an interesting dilemma recently. The patient had recently got married to an older man who already had three children from his first wife. This was her first marriage and she wanted babies, but she was already 39 . When she did a blood test , she f...
We are from Bangalore and had been trying to conceive from past 10+ years without any success. We had seen multiple doctors here and tried stimulated cycles, couple of IUIs and one round of IVF at highly reputed clinics here. We even tried alternative medicines like h...
I just got this email from a patient. Dear Dr Malpani, I have read your article online and am very much interested on any updates on your article or challenge to Clear Passage Therapy . I have seen this Clinic referred to me by Natural Fertility online and so I went t...
Even though the IVF lab is the heart and soul of the IVF clinic, most IVF patients are clueless about what happens in the IVF lab. Many IVF doctors take advantage of this ignorance, and keep their patients in the dark about their embryos. This is a tragedy. D...
While IVF is usually safe , one of the dreaded complications of IVF treatment is OHSS. If not managed properly, it can lead to hospitalisation in the ICU, and even death. This is why it's so important to prevent it. Step number 1 is to identify patients who are at incr...
While IVF is usually safe , one of the dreaded complications of IVF treatment is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome ( OHSS.) If not managed properly, it can lead to hospitalisation in the ICU, and even death. This is why it's so important to prevent it. Step number 1...