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Health Encyclopedia: Infertility In Women Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are medical techniques that help couples conceive. These procedures involve either:

A couples own eggs or sperm
Donor eggs, sperm, or embryos

Fertilization may occur either in the laboratory or in the uterus. In the U.S., the number of live birth deliveries from ART increased by 128% between 1996 and 2002. More than 45,000 babies are now born in the U.S. each year using assisted reproductive technologies.

ART includes fertili...

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Expert & Community Posts

The link between fertility treatments and birth defects

By Amy Hendel , Health Expert

...52,000 infants were born in the US as a result of in vitro fertilization and related... Read more »

Age Affects IVF Success Rates

By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

For many thousands of women, in vitro fertilization (IVF) provides the only realistic hope of... Read more »

We Have Confirmed Fertility Issues - What Now???

By Amy Hendel , Health Expert

...undergo several rounds before conception happens. In Vitro Fertilization If the cause... Read more »

Selecting Healthy Children: At What Cost?

By PJ Hamel , Health Expert

“A British woman has made history by conceiving the country’s first ‘designer baby’... Read more »

Breast Cancer In the News: Exercise, One-Step Radiation, Clean Margins and More

By PJ Hamel , Health Expert

...to be highly predictive for breast cancer.) After in vitro fertilization, while the embryo is at... Read more »

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Infertility in Men: Assisted Reproductive Technologies

...assisted reproductive technologies.ART includes fertility drug treatments, artificial insemination (AI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and other... Read more »

Infertility In Women: Risk Factors

...is unclear. One 2005 study found that psychological stress does not affect the success or failure of in vitro fertilization. Click the icon to see an image of the hypothalamus. Read more »

Infertility In Women: Medications

...with endometriosis quadruple their chances of becoming pregnant when the drug is 3 6 months prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracysoplasmic sperm injection. [For more information, see... Read more »

Infertility In Women: Causes

...is embryo cryopreservation. This procedure involves harvesting a womans eggs (oocytes), followed by in vitro fertilization and freezing of embryos for later use. Other treatments under... Read more »

Infertility In Women: Highlights

...associated with ART treatments. According to a study in Obstetrics and Gynecology, patients who receive in vitro fertilization (IVF) or fertility drugs are at increased risk for:Pre-eclampsia... Read more »

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Many infertile couples head overseas

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