Video: What are the Benefits of Single Embryo Transfer?

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Ask the Experts

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What are the benefits of single embryo transfer?

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Gabriel Garzo, M.D., Reproductive Partners Medical Group: The value of the single embryo transfer, elective single embryo transfer;

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that is the transfer of only one embryo, even though we have more embryos to transfer,

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is to avoid the single most significant complication of in vitro fertilization, which is multiple pregnancies.

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In vitro fertilization became synonymous with multiple pregnancies, particularly with high-order multiple pregnancies,

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not only twins, but triplets, quadruplets, which have a very significant complication rate for both the mother: high blood pressure, diabetes,

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and, particularly, for the babies, chance of prematurity, chance of a handicap, chances of complications, neurological complications.

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I think that the most significant development in our specialty has been the increased chances of success with lower chances of complications.

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I've been doing in vitro fertilization for 24 years, at a time where our success rates were in the neighborhood of 15, 20 percent.

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Now, 24 years later, our success rate, for example, in patients under 35, or in patients undergoing egg donation,

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is 81 percent, and that is with a transfer of only one embryo, with an elective single embryo transfer.

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So the chances of twins and any multiple pregnancy is significantly decreased.

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