What is the significance of PGD test tube baby for infertility patients?
In modern society, infertility has become a problem faced by many couples. The emergence of PGD test tube baby technology has brought new hope to infertile patients. PGD test tube baby technology combines test tube baby and embryonic genetic diagnosis, which can screen and select embryos with genetic disease risk at the early stage of fertilized egg development, greatly improving the success rate of infertile patients to obtain healthy babies. This article will elaborate on the significance of PGD test tube babies for infertile patients from four aspects: reducing the risk of genetic diseases, selecting genetic diseases, increasing the success rate of pregnancy and reducing psychological pressure.
Reduce genetic disease risk
Some of the infertile patients suffer from the risk of genetic diseases. If natural pregnancy is adopted, the genetic diseases may be passed on to the next generation. PGD test tube baby technology can conduct gene screening for embryos at the early stage of fertilized egg development, and select healthy and risk-free embryos for implantation. In this way, the risk of passing on genetic diseases to future generations can be avoided, which greatly reduces the difficulty and risk of infertility patients having healthy babies.
For example, a study by Beijing xx Hospital showed that after the application of PGD test tube baby technology, the systemic erythema disease gene that is likely to be passed on to the next generation by both husband and wife was successfully eliminated, so that they successfully gave birth to a healthy baby. This shows that PGD technology plays an important role in reducing the risk of genetic diseases.
Genetic disease selection
PGD test tube baby technology can not only detect the risk of genetic diseases, but also selectively screen specific genetic diseases. For some major genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and thalassemia, PGD test tube baby technology can select embryos without these pathological genes for implantation, thus reducing the possibility of fertility disease risk.
Taking Shanghai xx Hospital as an example, they successfully used PGD technology to screen an embryo with normal gene from a patient with cystic fibrosis gene mutation, and implanted it into the patient's uterus to successfully give birth to a healthy baby. This not only brings hope for infertility patients to conceive healthy offspring, but also provides a feasible choice for patients with genetic diseases.
Increase pregnancy success rate
For patients with infertility, the success rate of pregnancy is very important. PGD test tube baby technology can select healthy embryos for implantation through embryonic genetic diagnosis, thus improving the probability of successful pregnancy.
For example, the research of Beijing yy Hospital shows that the success rate of implantation of embryos with normal genes screened by PGD technology will increase to more than 70%, while the success rate of traditional IVF technology is only about 50%. This shows the advantage of PGD technology in increasing the success rate of pregnancy.
Reduce psychological pressure
Infertility often brings great psychological pressure to both husband and wife. On the one hand, it is because they cannot have their own children as they wish, on the other hand, it is because the treatment process is long and painful. The appearance of PGD test tube baby technology has brought a glimmer of hope to infertile patients and alleviated their psychological burden.
For example, Guangzhou zz Hospital successfully gave birth to a pair of twins that couples dreamed of using PGD technology, which not only realized their wishes as parents, but also eased the psychological pressure over the years.
Summary
PGD test tube baby technology is of great significance to infertile patients. It can reduce the risk of genetic diseases, selectively screen specific genetic diseases, increase the success rate of pregnancy, and reduce the psychological pressure of patients. In addition, PGD IVF technology also brings new hope and infinite possibilities to infertile patients, and opens a new way for them to realize their dream of becoming parents.
