Carriers of a pathological gene
There are couples where one or even sometimes both are carriers of a pathological gene, whose expression in the foetus can lead to the appearance of a significant disease. Some of the most common such diseases are diseases like Mediterranean anaemia, Cystic fibrosis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and many others.…
Most patients believe that some drugs used in fertility are stronger and more dangerous than others, which is not true indeed. Actually, there are specific medication protocols for every type of treatment and studies haven’t shown a big difference in the stimulation results between them.
Drugs used in fertility are distinguished into two categories, those…
CLOMIPHENE CITRATE (SERPAFAR)
It is probably the oldest one of this short of drugs and the only one taken in pill form. It is practically an estrogen antagonist that tricks the pituitary gland with the false message that estrogen levels are dropping and thus forces the gland to secrete large amounts of gonadotropins to wake…
Cabergoline and Bromocriptine (Dostinex and Parlodel)
Hyperprolactinaemia, described at the increased concentration of prolactin in the blood, can prevent ovulation or alter its quality. These drugs are used to restore prolactin levels back to normal. These drugs are completely innocent and should not be stopped unless there is a medical recommendation.
Thyroid Hormone
It is…
This new technique, which has been applied in recent years, is suggested for those young patients who have been violently forced to give up the dream of having a child due to cancer diagnosis. In these cases, the cancer treatment that is administered is mostly aggravating or even destructive for the future function of the…
PICSI micro fertilisation acts as an extra sperm quality filter and is a technique used for the best possible selection of sperm, which will be used for injection into the egg with ICSI micro fertilisation.
The PICSI method is literally an extra test for the sperm and involves placing the sperm in hyaluronic acid (HA),…