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Many IVF clinics claim to use an embryoscope to culture embryos in vitro. While this provides great video images of the developing embryos, it has not been proven to improve IVF pregnancy rates. However, patients are quite happy to pay extra for this, because the docto......
When an IVF cycle fails because of poor quality embryos, rather than acknowledge the fact that often the result for the poor quality embryos is a poor quality IVF lab, IVF doctors are happy to blame "abnormal genetics" as the cause for the embryo fragmentation. They t......
When an IVF cycle fails, this is the commonest question which patients ask - What can we do differently next time ? They naively believe that the fact that the cycle failed means something went "wrong", and if we identify and " correct" this, the next cycle will succe......
A patient sent me this email. I am going through an IVF cycle . Egg retrieval has already been done and as per the doctor's report , 10 embryos were formed.. Then we were told that instead of fresh ET , he will.go for frozen cycle , so that ovary comes to to.normalcy......
Many patients naively assume that all IVF doctors are equally good, while the reality is very different. However, if's hard for a poorly informed patient to differentiate between a good doctor and a bad doctor - and bad doctors take advantage of a patient's ignorance !......
It amazes me how aggressive IVF doctors have become. I saw a patient today, who had bacteria in his semen culture( a completely pointless and useless test, which should not have been done in the first place.) Because this did not clear up with antibiotics, the doctor......
A patient sent me this email Can you please check my semen analysis report and confirm that this is normal I checked it,and since it was normal, I replied, Good, this is a normal report ! Read more at https://www.drmalpani.com/knowledge-center/resources/......
A patient sent me this email I had a query. I have conceived through IVF and ET was on Jan 6 th and my LMP was on Dec 20th.I got my ultrasound done on 16th Feb and in scan it showed the pregnancy is 5 weeks 6 days.If I calculate the growth of the baby from the date......
A patient sent me this email We are considering embarking upon IVF to have our 4th living child . We have a history of successful pregnancies (births 2008, 2010, 2012) mixed with miscarriages (3 in 2007, one in 2017). We want to expedite conception rather than tryin......
I am 28 and my girl friend is 33.We want to get married, but my mother is worried about her fertility, because she is older than I am Can you help ? While I can do some simple tests to check her fertility, I am very reluctant to do tests without any......