Blastocyst Culture
In the past in IVF programmes embryos were transferred on the 3rd day after egg collection. When many good quality embryos are available on day 3 it can be difficult to decide which are the best ones to put back and in these circumstances we can now give couples the possibility of opting for blastocyst transfer. The embryos are allowed to grow in the laboratory until they are 5 days old. The appearance of the embryo changes so instead of a group of 6 to 8 cells as seen on day 3, it accumulates fluid in the centre of the embryo and those cells which are going to form the baby (the inner cell mass) fuse together at the side of the embryo. The remaining cells go towards forming the placenta. The blastocyst is a much more advanced structure than the 3 day old embryo and the real advantage of transferring blastocysts is the high live birth rate associated with blastocyst transfer.
Although many couples wish to undergo blastocyst transfer it can only be used in those patients who have several high quality embryos on day 3 after egg collection and so although we can take a decision in principle to perform transfer on day 5 we can only take the final decision on day 3. For women who wish to get pregnant but are keen to avoid a twin pregnancy, a single embryo transfer using a blastocyst will give the them the highest chance.
Role of Blastocyst Culture in IVF?
Standard practice in IVF used to be to displace embryos into the uterus after just a few days of advancement, when the embryos at the partition stage and typically made out of somewhere close to two and eight cells.
Stretching out the embryo culture to five or six days gives the researchers a more drawn-out period over which to notice undeveloped embryo. During this several days it is totally entirely expected for just a few embryos to develop and create to shape a blastocyst. Blastocysts are thusly a more select bundle, so have a more noteworthy potential to frame a pregnancy than embryos at prior cleavage stages.
It is additionally felt that moving an embryo into the uterus at the blastocyst stage may work on its shot at embedding on the grounds that we are getting the circumstance right. The blastocyst is the phase of improvement that would ordinarily be in the uterus prepared to embed. Embryos in partition stage then again would ordinarily be in the fallopian tube, so when we set them back into the uterus, they need to stick around two or three days before they can be embedded. In the beginning of IVF, specialists regularly transfer various embryos into the uterus to consider the ones that wouldn’t grow effectively and this brought about multiple pregnancies in some women. Above all, with blastocyst culture, as we are as a rule more selective in our decision of embryo, we can certainly transfer less embryo, regularly single embryos and can avoid the chances of having multiple pregnancies.
For whom this Blastocyst Culture is?
Blastocyst culture is generally advised for the individuals with:
- Had multiple failed IVF process before, performing blastocyst culture on the individuals who have previously got failed in IVF treatment with day 2 to 3 embryo transfers that it can analysis the information related to the embryo growth and helps in improving the pregnancy rate.
- Want to overcome the risk of multiple pregnancies as it process with electing out the single quality embryo to embedded in the uterus that increases the success rate and gives the desired pregnancy.
In this field of continued innovations in medical field and changes offer great opportunity for couples struggling to conceive. Blastocyst is one important steps towards treating infertility at Dr Sarita Sukhija’s fertility clinic in Africa.
It is very pleasing for us to able to offer the fertility solutions to the couples or individual want to build their family and with that aim we have started moving states to states in Africa to provide solution to all the couples or single parent. Contact us to join hands in the process and let us help you in your bad times.
