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Egg donationEgg sharing
Some IVF clinics have introduced an egg sharing program. Egg sharing is an arrangement that enables selected groups of infertile patients who cannot afford the cost of IVF treatment, to receive IVF treatment in return for donating a proportion of their eggs to matching paying recipients. The egg sharer donor must be fit and healthy, under the age of 35. It is important that the egg sharer understands that the number of embryos available for freezing are reduced. Currently, over 40 IVF clinics in the UK offer egg sharing and over 2000 babies have been born so far from egg sharing programs. Many publications have confirmed that the act of egg sharing does not compromise the success rate of the sharer. The potential egg sharer donor are carefully assessed and screened for infectious and genetic diseases as altruistic donors. Potential donors with known or suspected poor ovarian response or poor egg quality are excluded. Because of the complexity of egg sharing program, independent counseling is essential for all couples wishing to embark on the program. Infertile woman undergoes IVF treatment. After the eggs are collected they are shared between the infertile couple and the egg recipient couple. The minimum number of eggs for sharing is usually 8 but varies between different centers. The donated eggs will be inseminated with sperm from the recipient's woman partner while the other eggs will be inseminated with sperm from the infertile woman' partner. Each couple will have their own embryos transferred. Occasionally, the donor treatment cycle does not go smoothly as planned. For example, few eggs are collected that are not enough to split. Sometimes, the treatment cycle has to be abandoned because of poor follicular development or risk of OHSS. The eggs may fail to fertilize or the embryos may fail to divide. Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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