What is the importance of grading embryos in in vitro fertilization
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In vitro fertilization at 26. Exactly. So young and impossible as it may sound, it happened to me.
With my husband’s azoospermia, the only solution was to move forward with the treatment and extracting sperm through the PESA/TESA procedure.
Thankfully, it was successful and me were able to freeze it.
My protocol was short and it produces 12 eggs, all suitable for intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection. The spermat the day of the egg collection showed increased anomalies and little mobility.
Out of the 12, only four were fertilized..Of those, only two were transfered and they were of average quality…26, 12, 4, 2…numbers don’t matter as much in the end.
What if everything was difficult? With Mihalis Fragkoulidis by our side, we did it. That is what counts.Now i am pregnant and i look forward to having my baby!
It is very important to understand that grading the quality of the embryos is purely for the architectural morphology of the EMBRYO and not for the gene morphology, which is more important. There are many occasions where excellent embryos are not implanted in the uterus and mediocre ones give the much wanted pregnancy. So, we must not be disappointed by the poor grading of some embryos as that does not determine the result of the pregnancy test. Grading is important only when we have a large number of embryos as a sampleand must choose which ones to transfer.
