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The IVF Guide is Now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
IVF Treatment is one of the most personal journeys couples go through- A journey with ups and downs, tears and hopefully joy. You may have been through various tests and treatments without a positive outcome or you may just be beginning to look into your options. One important thing before embarking on such a journey is to equip yourselves with the right information about physiological aspects of fertility, pathologies that may cause infertility and available treatment options both in current use and on the horizon. The IVF guide will help you understand normal physiological processes as well as where things may go wrong that will lead to issues of infertility. |
> Ovarian Rejuvenation via PRP: Is Pregnancy Possible After Menopause?
> Stem Cell Therapy For Azoospermia: Can Stem Cells Help Restore Spermatogenesis?
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IVF Treatment in Older Age BracketsIt is no secret that men and women both experience a decline in their level of fertility as they age. However, women experience a much more pronounced decline in their fertility as they reach more advanced age brackets. One of the key factors when considering treatment options for women over 40 is an effective assessment of ovarian function.
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Pregnancy After Menopause? Yes, the technology is here! North Cyprus IVF Center is now offering PRP treatment for ovarian and endometrial rejuvenation. In recent clinical studies, it has been shown that ovarian PRP application can stimulate growth factors and activate stem cells into producing new oocytes, reversing the effects of menopause in the ovaries. Endometrial PRP application at North Cyprus IVF Clinic has proven benefits in embryo implantation and therefore IVF success rates in patients with repeated IVF failures. |
IVF Treatment in Cyprus: North Cyprus IVF Center
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Savas Ozyigit adds one more award to his collection of many! In November of 2016, a red carpet event held in Istanbul announced Prof. Ozyigit as the recipient of "lifetime achievement award" for his contributions in the medical field over the course of his career. As the first IVF specialist in Northern Cyprus, Prof. Ozyigit has introduced a number of firsts in his field in the region. We are sure he is not done collecting these awards just yet... (Read More) As the very first certified IVF specialist in North Cyprus, Dr. Ozyigit has introduced many firsts on the island in the field of assisted reproductive science. As the recipient of several accolades, Dr. Ozyigit offers highest IVF success rates on the island through his expertise and an amalgamation of own methods with the latest discoveries in medicine. (More About Us)
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Stem Cell Therapy for AzoospermiaMesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent progenitor cells, meaning that they have the ability to differentiate into many other cell types. Moreover, MSCs express several enzymes, growth factors, and chemical messengers called chemokines which stimulate cellular growth, proliferation, and differentiation. To date, the therapeutic and healing properties of MSCs have been observed and validated in numerous medical fields including orthopedics, dermatology and tissue regeneration in general. Animal studies have also shown that injecting MSCs into the seminiferous tubules can induce spermatogenesis in males with non-obstructive azoospermia. Similarly, spermatogonial sperm cell transplantation from healthy animals to azoospermic animals has been shown to significantly stimulate spermatogenesis.
Following this, clinical trials are currently underway to evaluate whether injecting MSCs into the testes can stimulate spermatogenesis in human patients with non-obstructive azoospermia. Due to the low side effect profile, stem cell therapy will become a very popular clinical application for the treatment of male infertility. North Cyprus IVF Center is one of the very few clinics in the world to commercially offer this therapy for the treatment of azoospermia as well as certain sub-types of female infertility. (Read more) |
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Fertility Treatments at North Cyprus IVF Center
Fertility treatments have one aim: To help achieve pregnancy. While treatments for infertility may not always cure the problem, they at least attempt a one-time fix in order to create pregnancy. In some patients, non-invasive therapies may help restore fertility so that pregnancy can be achieved naturally without the need for more invasive treatment options. In some patients, the physiological processes may have been compromised to a higher extent, requiring assistance in a laboratory setting where the eggs and sperm can be fertilized under an embryologist's observation. Some other patients may not benefit from neither option as their eggs or sperm cells may not be suitable for obtaining a viable pregnancy. In such cases, third party donations become an option.
Non-Invasive Options
Non-invasive fertility treatments are often used for couples in younger age brackets who do not have an apparent infertility issue but are still unable to conceive via natural conception methods. Problems with ovulation due to hormone imbalances can also be helped with hormonal regulation with medication, especially in patients with polycystic ovaries (PCO/PCOS). Non-invasive options include clomifene citrate cycles where ovulation is controlled with medication and intercourse is planned in a timely fashion. Alternatively, gonadotropins can be used to stimulate the ovaries when clomifene citrate is not sufficient for a desired level of ovarian stimulation.
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IUI/IVF Treatments
When there are more pronounced issues of infertility or when the patients do not respond to non-invasive methods, relatively more sophisticated treatments will be required. These include IUI Treatments where the female patient's eggs are stimulated with medication and the male partner's sperm cells are inserted directly into the female patient's uterus. If IUI doesn't work, or the patients are in more advanced reproductive age, it may be wiser to go directly for an IVF Treatment, where the female patient's eggs are fertilized with the male patient's sperm cells manually in the lab and are returned to the uterus for pregnancy.
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Third Party Conception
When patients are in more advanced age brackets or when they are not responding to IVF treatments with their own gametes, third party conception treatments become an option. If the problem lies on the male side, IVF with donor sperm becomes an option. Donor sperm is often consulted after undergoing surgical sperm extraction methods and no live sperm cells are found in the testes. If the cause of infertility rests with the eggs, then IVF using donor eggs becomes an option. When infertility stems from both the eggs and the sperm cells and viable embryos cannot be obtained, IVF with embryo donation becomes an available treatment option.
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IVF with Donor Eggs: Egg Donation at North Cyprus IVF Center
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Egg donation at North Cyprus IVF clinic is a treatment option suitable for patients who cannot achieve pregnancy using their own eggs during an IVF treatment. This group of patients include women with premature ovarian failure, women in menopause, women who have undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy and therefore lost their ovarian function, women at the risk of transmitting a genetic condition to her child and gay men who need donor eggs to have a child. Due to our strict egg donor recruitment criteria, our expertise, high level of technology and favorable laws, we are able to offer success rates around 80% with this treatment option. Egg donation in North Cyprus is done anonymously. However, we can offer agency donors from overseas agencies for patients willing to use a known egg donor. The cost of this option would be substantially higher than using a clinic egg donor. Read more on our "IVF with Donor Eggs" section.
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Can You Choose the Sex of Your Baby? Gender Selection at North Cyprus IVF Center
Gender or sex selection refers to choosing the sex of your baby before conception. Gender selection program at North Cyprus IVF Centre allows patients to select the sex of their unborn baby for family balancing purposes or to eliminate the likelihood of X-linked genetic diseases with their unborn child. Gender selection methods include pre-implantation genetic screening, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD/PGS) and MicroSort sperm sorting techniques. Due to legal regulations, Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening cannot be used as a gender selection method in Cyprus. Therefore, MicroSort becomes the only alternative for selecting the sex of your baby. Please be aware that North Cyprus IVF Center is the sole owner of MicroSort technologies in Europe and the Middle East and no other clinic in Cyprus has access to this technology without purchasing the service directly from us. It has been brought to our knowledge that some other clinics in Cyprus are claiming to offer MicroSort, but this is NOT the case. MicroSort provides you with an individual patient number where you can check the authenticity of your sorted sperm sample. If you are not provided with a MicroSort number and/or an authenticity document, then you are not offered MicroSort. MicroSort offers an accuracy of around 80% for sex selection. For more information about our gender selection program, please visit "Gender Selection Options" page.
IVF with Donor Sperm: Sperm Donation at North Cyprus IVF Center
IVF with sperm donation is a fertility treatment option for couples with male factor infertility where the male partner suffers from azoospermia or any other problem which prevents him from achieving pregnancy using his own sperm sample. This treatment option is also offered to single women or lesbian couples who wish to become pregnant without a male partner. In this treatment option, certified sperm samples from known and accredited sperm banks are used. IVF with sperm donation is also done anonymously where donor and recipient contact and personal information are kept confidential. Given that we use sperm samples in an anonymous fashion from sperm banks, we are also not in possession of your sperm donor's identification or contact information. However, we do have access to medical information as well as relevant test and screening results. Success with this treatment depends on not only the quality of sperm, but also the count and quality of oocytes to be obtained from the female patient. For more information on sperm donor IVF treatment at North Cyprus IVF Center, please visit our "IVF with Donor Sperm" page.
What else is New in fertility treatments?
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Sperm Selection via MicroFluidic Chip: Goodbye DNA damage!
Just like how being able to select the highest quality embryos for embryo transfer determines the likelihood of success with IVF treatments, being able to select the highest quality sperm determines the quality of the embryos that will be created after ICSI. The micro chip technology allows us to select not only the best sperm cells, but also the sperm cells with highest genetic integrity (lowest DNA damage).
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Cytoplasmic IVF Transfer: IVF Success in Older Age Brackets
Cytoplasmic IVF transfer is one of the latest approaches in fertility treatments. When used as part of an IVF/ICSI program has the potential of increasing success rates in older age brackets. This treatment option rests on the principle that cells are fueled by the organelles found in the cytoplasm, mainly the mitochondria. Mitochondria found in the cytoplasm are responsible for providing energy for growth.
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Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging for Embryo Selection
Embryoscope is a trademark name for the time lapse embryo imaging technology used during IVF treatments. This technology allows the embryologist to watch and observe embryo growth in a continuos manner through the screens fitted onto the incubators in which the embryos are placed, or through an iPad with the appropriate application which makes it possible to monitor the embryos with remote access.
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Our child development specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cagla Gur has published her 4th book in August 2018. Her latest book project guides new parents through parenting a newborn between the ages of 0 to 3. (Read More)
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Our clinical coordinator Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ozyigit has recently published an article in the Frontiers Journal- which is considered to be one of the most prestigious journals in the field of Neurology with an impact factor of 3.508! (Read More)
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IVF Curiosity
We know you may have a lot of questions at this point... How much does IVF Treatment Cost? What are the reasons for IVF failures? Can I be pregnant with a low AMH level? Can we have a successful IVF treatment with an azoospermia diagnosis? Why do I keep having miscarriages? Can I choose the sex of my baby with IVF treatment? What is the legal age limit for IVF treatment? What are the success rates for donor egg IVF treatment for women over 45? over 50? What is the difference between a known egg donor and an anonymous egg donor? Answers to all of these and many more can be found on our IVF Blog and FAQ pages.
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