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There exists a form of treatment that in future years may become an alternative treatment to IVF for the under -35s. It's called IVM -In Vitro Maturation.
Currently it is being offered to women with polycystic ovaries instead of IVF. Why? Because it doesn't involve ovarian stimulation and women with PCOS are more likely to suffer ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome when undergoing IVF treatment.
A cycle with no sniffing and no injecting! When can I sign up, you say. How does it work?
Firstly there are only a handful of clinics in the world at this stage offering the procedure, which is in its early stages of development. They are currently offering it to women with PCOS in their early to mid-thirties. For others, if you have just been born and are reading this no doubt by the time you reach your infertile years you'll be able to access it on any street corner. Anybody else will have to wait and see.
The way it works is that the follicles normally produced in a menstrual cycle are extracted when still immature - sized between 2-8mm as opposed to in IVF when they are grown to 10 mm or more. Most of the action then occurs in the lab, including the heavy petting, the maturing of the eggs and the fertilization, via ICSI.
The downside however is that success is far more likely in the under 35's due to the reliance on the ovaries to produce their own healthy eggs.
The pregnancy rate in some UK clinics is 20-30% for those under 38 with PCOS. Four hundred babies have been born worldwide as a result of IVM. It is expected that in the future it will overtake IVF as the preferred treatment for under 35's, being cheaper and without the drug side-effects.
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