Many facilities today offer in vitro fertilization. However, an exceptional center such as the Crozer Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility Center has the ability to solve very complex and difficult fertility problems as well.
The center can treat essentially all reproductive abnormalities relating to infertility in men and women, and provide patients with the full spectrum of assisted reproductive technology care, all under one roof. Crozer's medical center is among just a few medical centers in the world to offer autologous endometrial coculture, a rare, in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure that uses a woman's own cells to simulate a nutrient-rich environment where embryos develop.
And patients not only get the expertise of the Crozer Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility Center, but also have access to all other departments and experts at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
The Center also recently introduced Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), a state-of-the-art procedure offered in conjunction with IVF that permits genetic testing on the resulting embryos prior to transfer. This procedure offers new hope to patients that are of advanced maternal age, have a history of recurrent miscarriage, recurrent in IVF failure, male factor infertility and known family genetic abnormalities or diseases.
PGD is performed as part of an IVF cycle where multiple eggs are produced, retrieved from the ovaries and fertilized with the partner's sperm. At their earliest stage of development, one or two cells are removed from each embryo through a procedure called embryo biopsy. These cells are analyzed to determine which are free of genetic abnormalities.
Read more about PGD and IVF at the Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility Center at Crozer.