Infertility

N97 Female infertility

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes medical procedures used primarily to address infertility.

People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility.

The technique is often used to delay childbearing, protecting against future infertility.

This scientific breakthrough established standards and became an agent of change for women with infertility and for women who did not want to pass on genetic disorders to their children.

Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) is a tool of assisted reproductive technology against infertility.

Zygote intra fallopian transfer (ZIFT) is an infertility treatment used when a blockage in the fallopian tubes prevents the normal binding of sperm to the egg.

While the original purpose of freezing embryos was to help heterosexual couples who struggled with infertility, the practice has become an increasingly common avenue to start a family for homosexual couples, single women, as well as surrogates.

Embryo donation can be carried out as a service of an individual infertility clinic (where donor and recipient families typically live in the local area and are both patients of the same clinic) or by any of several national organizations.

Sperm washing is a standard procedure in infertility treatment.

Transvaginal oocyte retrieval (TVOR), also referred to as oocyte retrieval (OCR), is a technique used in in vitro fertilization (IVF) in order to remove oocytes from an ovary, enabling fertilization outside the body.

This form of infertility is known as uterine factor infertility (UFI) for which a uterine transplant may be able to treat.

With the development of IVF technology, IVF has increasingly supplanted tuboplasty as a treatment for tubal infertility.