What diseases can IVF treat?
As a modern technology, IVF is widely used to treat infertility and some genetic diseases. By means of assisted reproductive technology, IVF medical treatment can help couples who are unable to conceive naturally or have high genetic risk to realize their reproductive dreams. The following is a detailed description of the diseases that IVF medical can treat from four aspects.
sterility
Infertility refers to the condition that couples cannot conceive naturally within a specified time. IVF medical treatment provides an effective solution for infertile couples. Through assisted reproductive technology, women's eggs and men's sperm can be collected for in vitro fertilization, and then the fertilized eggs can be transplanted back to women's uterus to make them pregnant successfully. The causes of infertility are different, which may be female ovarian dysfunction, male sperm quality problems, or bilateral chromosome abnormalities. And IVF medical treatment can take corresponding treatment measures according to different reasons to help couples solve the problem of infertility.
In addition, IVF medical treatment can also provide women with the choice of frozen eggs or frozen embryos, delay the reproductive age and improve the success rate.
Genetic disease
Some genetic diseases will directly affect fertility or the healthy development of embryos. IVF medical treatment can prevent and treat some genetic diseases through genetic screening and IVF gene editing technology. For example, PGD can screen whether an embryo carries chromosome abnormalities, so as to avoid the transfer of embryos carrying serious genetic diseases. In addition, there is now IVF gene editing technology that can modify genes at the stage of fertilized eggs to eliminate the risk of some genetic diseases.
Through the application of these technologies, IVF medical successfully avoided the transmission of family genetic diseases, creating opportunities for healthy babies for couples.
Low quality sperm
Low quality sperm is one of the major causes of infertility. If the number of male sperm is too small, the mobility is low or the morphology is abnormal, then the probability of natural pregnancy is very low. IVF medical treatment can select relatively good quality sperm from male semen through sperm separation technology, and then use in vitro fertilization to reproduce embryos to improve the success rate of pregnancy. In addition, for men with low sperm quality, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) can also be used to directly inject a single sperm into the egg cell for fertilization.
Ovarian insufficiency
Ovarian insufficiency is a common cause of infertility, especially for women over 35 years old. IVF medical treatment can help these women achieve fertility through artificial assistance measures. For example, in the process of assisted pregnancy, hormone therapy can be used to improve the chances of follicular development and ovulation. In addition, IVF medical treatment can also increase the success rate of implantation by selecting the blastocyst transfer technology (TESE).
To sum up, IVF medical treatment provides hope for infertile couples through assisted reproductive technology. It can treat infertility, prevent genetic diseases, solve the problem of low quality sperm and ovarian dysfunction, and help couples who cannot conceive naturally realize their reproductive dreams.
