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10 BEST INFERTILITY CENTERS IN THE U.S.A.

10 Best Fertility Centers

1. Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Englewood

2. The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York City

3. University Fertility Consultants at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland

4. New York University School of Medicine, Program for In-Vitro Fertilization, Reproductive Surgery, and Infertility, New York City

5. The Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke's Hospital

6. The Nevada Center for Reproductive Medicine, Reno

7. Presbyterian Hospital ARTS Program, Dallas and Plano, TX

8. Florida Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Jacksonville

9. Southern California Reproductive Center, Beverly Hills

10. Center for Reproductive Medicine of New Mexico, Albuquerque

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INFORMATION REFERENCES

REFERENCES

• Ashley, B.M., O’Rourke, K.D. (1997). Health care ethics, (4th ed.). Washington: Georgetown University Press.
  
• Frey, K.A., Patel, K.S. (2004). Initial evaluation and management of infertility by the primary care physician. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 79(11), 1439-1443.
  
• Hirsh, A., (2003). ABC of subfertility: Male subfertility. British Medical Journal, 327(7416), 669-675. Retrieved form the Proquest database on March 4th, 2005.
  
• Keatings, M., Smith, O.B. (2000). Ethical and legal issues in Canadian nursing, (2nd ed.). Toronto: WB Saunders.
  
• Kolettis, P.N. (2003). Evaluation of the subfertile man. American Family physician, 67(10), 2165. Retrieved from the Proquest database on March 4th, 2005.
• Qaadri, S. (2003). Advice for helping sub-fertile couples. Medical Post, 39(27), 34-36. Retrieved from the Proquest database on March 4th, 2005.
  
• Roedler, R., Nystrom, M. (2004). Infertility: A review of its treatment. Pharmacy Practice, 20(12), 1-8. Retrieved from the Proquest database on March 4, 2005.
  §Serono Inc. (2005). Coping emotionally. Retrieved from www.fertility.com on March 1st, 2005
  
• Social Change Online. (2005). FPA Health; Fact sheet. Retrieved from www.fpahealth.org.au on February 28th, 2005
  
• The National Woman’s Health Information center. (2004). Healthy Pregnancy. Retrieved from www.4woman.gov/pregnancy on February 28th, 2005.
  §Wong D., Perry, S., & Hockenberry, J. (2002). Maternal child nursing care (2nd ed.). St. Louis: Mosby Inc.
  

TREATMENTS FOR INFERTILITY

Some Options Are:

• For ovulatory dysfunction, many women begin treatment with medication to over stimulate the ovaries to ovulate.
• Drugs like Clomiphene are used which cause the woman to superovulate. Timed intercourse is recommended for 5 to 10 days after treatment.
• Multiple births are a risk factor in this treatment as more than one egg is released.
• For tubal occlusions, there are procedures which may be performed to repair the occlusion, but these procedures run the risk of causing scar tissue as well.
• IVF – In vitro fertilization – This procedure is very costly and time consuming for the infertile couple.
  
  
  
  
• It begins with daily injections of gonadotropins to stimulate the ovaries to ovulate many oocytes, these oocytes are then harvested from the woman and are either exposed to sperm cells isolated from the man for natural penetration by the sperm, or a single “perfect” sperm is injected directly into the oocyte.
• The fertilized egg is then incubated for 3 – 5 days and if development is proceeding normally, is implanted into the woman’s uterus.
• ICSI – introcytoplasmic sperm injection – The same procedure as IVF except the sperm cell is taken directly from the testes of the male Natural Family Planning
  
  
  
  
• IUI – intrauterine injection – for men with a semen abnormality IUI may be performed.
• It involves collecting a sample of semen from the man, and separating the normal, high quality sperm from the sample, then these selected sperm are then injected directly into the uterus of the woman around the time of ovulation
  
  
  
  
• GIFT – Gamete intra fallopian transfer – A Harvested oocyte, as well as washed sperm (pre selected healthy motile sperm), are combined in a pipette and introduced surgically into the fallopian tube.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• FET- Frozen embryo transfer – The clients must go through IVF treatment, and they have the option of having some of the embryo’s which were not transferred initially frozen for up to 3 years.
  
  
  
  
  
• If these treatments are unsuccessful, or unavailable to the infertile couple they may wish to look into donor eggs, donor sperm, surrogacy, or adoption
  

MALE INFERTILITY

REASONS FOR MALE INFERTILITY

• The most common factor in male infertility is one or a combination of sperm deficits
  
• Abnormal sperm (teratozoospermia)
  
• Low sperm count (oligozoospermia)
  
• Decsreased motility of sperm (asthenozoospermia)
  
• No sperm in ejaculate (due mainly to tubal deformities, called azoospermia)
  
• All sperm non viable or non motile (necrozoospermia)
• Inflammation of the seminal blood vessels can cause blockages which impedes the transport of semen into the ejaculatory duct (varicocele) and can be treated surgically.
  
• STI’s can also cause tubal occlusions in males, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea can cause scar tissue to form in ducts causing blockages.
  
• Chemotherapy and radiation treatment in the inguinal region can also damage the testis and cause infertility.
  
  

FEMALE INFERTILITY

REASONS FOR FEMALE INFERTILITY

• The most common cause of Female infertility is failure to ovulate.
• This may be due to a lack of stimulation by the pituitary Gland, stress, trauma, obesity, anorexia, or excessive athletic activity, Premature Menopause, ovarian cysts, or ovarian cancer to name a few.
• Chemotherapy and radiation treatments around the abdomen may damage the ovaries and cause infertility.
• In order to conceive a child, a woman’s fallopian tubes must be patent.
  
• There are many causes of tubal obstruction:
  
• PID – pelvic inflammatory disease – can cause a buildup of scar tissue in the fallopian tubes
  
• STD’s like Chlamydia and Gonorrhea can cause a buildup of scar tissue in the fallopian tubes if not detected or treated early
  
• Anatomical anomalies
  
• Reversal of tubal ligation
  
• There may also problems with the uterus which can cause infertility
  
• Severe endometriosis