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'Three-frozen' test-tube baby renews hope for anxious couples

frozen embryo is a major breakthrough, but doctors warn against unrealistic expectations, Chen Zhiyong finds out
Test-tube technology has fulfilled the dreams of millions of infertile couples to have a baby of their own. Since its introduction in China 18 years ago, this miracle continues.
Peking University Third Hospital, where the first Chinese test- tube baby was born on March 10, 1988, has once again amazed the public.
A test-tube baby, conceived through a frozen egg, frozen sperm and frozen embryo, was born on January 26.
The baby boy has made history, becoming China's first, and the world's second, ...

Friday, January 9, 2009

Vietnam has made significant progress in infertility treatment


Recent achievements in infertility treatment in Vietnam have not only given fresh hope to childless couples, but also earned the country international recognition, according to local experts.


In the last week of December, the Hanoi-based Military Hospital’s Embryo Technology Center announced its success in culturing spermatids, saying that a baby had been born and six were expected to be born this year using the method.
Although the success rate now stands at 10 percent, it is notable that Vietnam is the first country in Asia to succeed in developing the technique, Vietnam News recently quoted Quan Hoang Lam - head of the center as saying.


Initiated by Doctor Tesarik J. from Turkey in 2001, the new technique helps men who cannot produce sperms.
Men can have their spermatids – the cells that become spermatozoon (sperms) – grown into sperms in culture medium within 24 hours and then injected into their wives’ ovum for fertilization.
Leading IVM nation
“Vietnam is one of the five countries, including Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Italy, which are leading in developing in vitro maturation (IVM),” Ho Chi Minh City Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Association (HOSREM) General Secretary Dr. Ho Manh Tuong told Lao Dong in a recent interview.
Since the first IVM baby was born in 2007, it is estimated that Vietnam has introduced 4 to 5 percent of some 500 IVM babies that are delivered internationally, he says.
“The number of IVM babies in Vietnam has increased sharply thanks to the rather high success rate,” Tuong adds.
According to HORSEM statistics, around 50 pregnancies so far have been achieved using IVM, including more than 10 cases of twins.
Following the success of the Vietnamese program, local scientists and experts have been invited to report their IVM application at international conferences, including the first European IVM meeting held in Monza, Italy, last month, Tuong says.
The association has also been invited to take part in a multi-center study on
IVM babies in the world headed by Professor R. Cheng Chian and Professor Seang Lintan of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, he says.
During IVM, immature eggs, or oocytes, are retrieved from the ovary, then matured in the laboratory before being fertilized and implanted in the womb.
The method almost halves the cost of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and has a shorter time of 10 days instead of four weeks.
Moreover, it does not imply a potentially fatal side-effect of injections given to stimulate egg production prior to retrieval, like the IVF. The side-effect, which is very rare, is known as the Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome.
While new achievements are being recorded and newer techniques applied, Vietnam already has a solid base in IVF development, experts say.
The country marked its first achievement in infertility treatment when three babies were born in 1998 using the IVF technology.
Over the past 10 years, 10 IVF centers have been established nationwide and these have introduced nearly 5,000 IVF babies in Vietnam, Tuong told the Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper recently.
Since 2004, Vietnam has also conducted IVF courses for foreign students from countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar.


Source: Lao Dong, SGGP

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Vietnam achieves success in new IVF treatment


Vietnam has become the first nation in Asia to successfully carry out a new treatment to help childless couples.
A girl was born using an IVF procedure in which doctors incubated a non-motile sperm cell and injected it into an egg, said Dr. Quan Hoang Lam, director of the Embryo Technology Centre.
Currently, the center is waiting for another six babies to be delivered from this procedure. Although the success ratio stands at 10 percent, Dr. Lam said, Vietnam is the only nation in Asia to have successfully applied the new method.

A disorder, not a disease

Dr Y Ravindranath

The last lap of 20th century witnessed a leap in tackling infertility with the advent of methods such as IVF Infertility is not a disease as such but a disorder of an order. Human fertility functions are very dynamic and precise.

Any deviation from this precision, may lead to a disorder. In women, the structural anomalies are permanent and congenital, like small, septate uterus, small ovaries or polycystic ovaries etc. These anomalies appear from the birth and if not corrected (some cannot be corrected), the consequences may lead either to abnormal function or no function.

Functional anomalies like hormonal imbalance, abnormal ovarian functions, irregular and painful periods etc., too can lead to infertility. Comparatively, these functional anomalies can be corrected better than structural anomalies. The seminal inadequacy in men is a similar anomaly. Apart from these inherent anomalies, age, psychological factors, stress, ignorance, changes in the biological clock and rhythms etc. can also lead to infertility.

The last lap of 20th century witnessed a leap in tackling infertility with the advent of methods such as IVF (In vitro Fertilisation), test tube techniques, followed by more advanced ICSI (Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection) methods. More than 3 million babies were born by these techniques in a span of 25 years round the world. Avoiding late marriages, getting professional help without delay, may to some extent control this tendency.

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