Through rigorous egg donor selection and screening, individualized
patient care, the use of state-of-the-art stimulation protocols
with recombinant gonadotropins, a "cutting edge" embryology
laboratory, and blastocyst transfers, success rates at Southeastern
Fertility Center have steadily improved. This web page is designed
to give you an overview of Southeastern Fertility Center's success
rate with donor egg treatment treatment in the most recent reporting
year. Since pregnancy rates per cycle of treatment vary tremendously
from individual to individual, we recommend consultation with
a physician at Southeastern Fertility Center to help you estimate
your pregnancy rate per treatment cycle.
"Success" can have various meanings in the world of
medicine. Accordingly, when evaluating pregnancy rates it is
important to understand the rates being quoted. It is clear that
the best measure of success for any infertility treatment is
the "take home baby" or "live birth" rate
per cycle of infertility treatment. Given the time period being
quoted the "live birth" rate may not be available and
in that situation the best measure of success is the clinical
pregnancy rate defined as the percent of IVF cycles resulting
in a pregnancy with fetal cardiac activity within
the uterus at 7 weeks of pregnancy.
Types of Donor Egg Cycles
We offer two different types of donor egg donation.
Single donor egg cycles are where all of the eggs from
one donor are given to one recipient.
Split donor egg cycles involve splitting the eggs from
one donor to two recipients. Split donor egg cycles are less expensive
than single donor egg cycles.
Entire Year 2007 Donor Egg Success Rates by
Cycle Type
The most recent donor egg pregnancy rates
from Southeastern Fertility Center can be found in the graph
below. The graph displays our patients' clinical pregnancy
rate per embryo transfer for
for all initiated infertility treatment
cycles with donor eggs during the entire year 2007.
The clinical
pregnancy rate
is the
percent
of donor egg cycles resulting
in a pregnancy with fetal cardiac activity within
the uterus at 7 weeks of pregnancy (5 weeks after embryo transfer).
* Pregnancy Specific Data for all patients initiating donor oocyte
treatment during the entire year 2007 at Southeastern Fertility
Center:
| |
Single Cycle |
Split Cycle |
Combined |
| # of patients with transfer |
34 |
32 |
66 |
| # of patients with a clinical pregnancy |
25 |
24 |
49 |
| Preg/rate per transfer |
73.5% |
75% |
74.2% |
** Clinical pregnancy is
defined as a pregnancy with fetal cardiac activity within the
uterus 5 weeks after egg
retrieval.
*** A comparison of clinic success rates may not be meaningful
because patient medical characteristics and treatment approaches
may vary from clinic to clinic.
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