Assisted Reproductive Technology

Assisted Reproductive Technology

Assisted reproductive technology, in short, ART is the technology that helps achieve pregnancy in in virtro fertilization, artificial insemination, fertility medication and surrogacy. This technology is basically used for infertility treatment. It is also called as fertility treatment. 

Couples who are discordant for some communicable diseases like HIV are also treated using ART to lessen the possibility of infection when a pregnancy is desired. It belongs to the area of reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and may even include cryopreservation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

In ART, the process of sexual intercource is bypassed by artificial insemination or in virtro fertilization(IVF). Several processes like surgical removal of eggs from a woman's ovaries, combining them with sperm, and putting them back into the woman's body or donating them to some other woman. 

Milann has proper fecilities for ART and it provides treatments in which either eggs or embryos are handled. Our specialists say that the main type of ART is IVF. The success rates of ART vary in case of patient and treatment characteristics, such as infertility diagnosis, use of techniques such as ICSI, number of embryos transferred, age, type of ART procedure, and history of previous births, ART cycles and miscarriages.

Following are the generally used ART methods:

Gamete intrafallopian transfer, in short, GIFT: the process of transferring eggs and sperm into the woman’s fallopian tube. Woman’s body is the host for fertilization.

In vitro fertilization, in short, IVF: here fertilization happens outside of the body. It is the most effective and the commonly used form of ART.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in short, ICSI: used for couples with male factor infertility. Also used for older couples or for those with failed IVF attempts.

Zygote intrafallopian transfer, in short, ZIFT: also called as tubal embryo transfer. Fertilization occurs in the laboratory and the very young embryo is then moved to the fallopian tube.

ART do not involve treatments in which only sperm are handled or procedures in which a woman takes medicine only to stimulate egg production without the intention of having eggs retrieved.

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