Application of assisted reproductive technology in pregnancy preparation for the elderly
Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards, many women start family planning only after their career development, which leads to the trend of pregnancy preparation for the elderly. However, because female fertility is related to age, the success rate of pregnancy preparation for the elderly is relatively low. In order to help elderly couples realize their reproductive dreams, the medical community has proposed a variety of assisted reproductive technologies. This article will elaborate on the assisted reproductive technology that can be tried in the advanced pregnancy preparation from four aspects: test tube baby technology, frozen eggs, egg donation and embryo transfer.
IVF technology
In vitro fertilization embryo transfer (IVF-ET) is one of the most common assisted reproductive technologies. This technology helps couples realize their reproductive dreams by in vitro fertilization of eggs and sperm in a culture dish, and then transplanting the embryos into a woman's uterus. For the elderly couples preparing for pregnancy, IVF technology has many advantages. First of all, this technology has bypassed the problem of female egg aging and quality decline to a certain extent, and improved the success rate of pregnancy. Secondly, IVF technology can reduce the risk of early abortion and chromosomal diseases caused by chromosomal abnormal embryos by screening embryos for genetic testing. Finally, in IVF technology, gender can also be selected to help couples achieve family planning.
The Reproductive Medicine Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital is one of the well-known hospitals in China that has earlier developed IVF technology. The center has introduced internationally leading cultivation and diagnostic technologies, and has a professional team to provide all-round help for elderly couples preparing for pregnancy.
Frozen egg
Frozen egg technology is a fertility technology that women's eggs are thawed and fertilized after cryopreservation. For the elderly pregnant women, the frozen egg technology can freeze and save eggs when they are most suitable for reproduction, so as to use them in the future. In this way, even if the quality of eggs declines due to aging, they can still use frozen eggs technology to improve the success rate of pregnancy. Frozen egg technology can also reduce the number of drug treatments and egg retrieval operations that need to be carried out when preparing for pregnancy in the elderly, reducing the physical burden of women.
The Reproductive Center of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital is a well-known research and clinical application base of frozen egg technology in China. The center is equipped with advanced freezing equipment and professional medical team to provide efficient and safe frozen egg services for elderly pregnant women.
Egg donation
Egg donation is an assisted reproductive technology that transfers young women's eggs into the uterus of elderly pregnant women after in vitro fertilization. Through egg donation, older pregnant women can use young women's eggs to bypass their own problems of egg aging and quality decline, and improve the success rate of pregnancy. The egg donation technology needs to consider similar appearance and blood type when matching donors to ensure the biological correlation between children and parents.
The Assisted Reproduction Center of Huashan Hospital is one of the professional institutions that made egg donation earlier in China. The center has an experienced medical team, which has provided high-quality services for the elderly pregnant women through strict donor screening and related technology applications.
embryo transfer
Embryo transfer is the process of transferring the embryos that have been fertilized and cultured in vitro into the female uterus, embedding them into the endometrium and developing into babies. In the advanced pregnancy preparation, embryo transfer can improve the success rate of pregnancy by screening and optimizing embryos and selecting high-quality embryos for transfer. In addition, embryo transfer can also choose fresh or frozen embryos to provide more pregnancy opportunities and improve the success rate.
The Institute of Reproductive Medicine of Nanjing Children's Hospital affiliated to Nanjing Medical University is one of the well-known embryo transfer centers in China. It has advanced embryo culture technology and transfer technology in China, providing accurate and efficient embryo transfer services for elderly pregnant couples.
Summary
Assisted reproductive technology provides a variety of options for elderly couples preparing for pregnancy. IVF technology improves the success rate of pregnancy through in vitro fertilization embryo transfer; Frozen egg technology can delay egg aging and provide more opportunities for pregnancy; The egg donation technology uses the eggs of young donors to bypass the problem of the eggs of older pregnancy candidates themselves; Embryo transfer technology can improve the success rate of pregnancy by screening and optimizing embryos. These assisted reproductive technologies provide hope and opportunities for the elderly pregnant women to realize their reproductive dreams.
