IVM: Cheaper and Safer Fertility Treatment?

Many women who've had trouble getting pregnant have had success via in-vitro fertilization treatments, but have found the side effects of hormone injections difficult to manage. Now, there's an alternative that does away with those injections.

In-vitro maturation is simpler, less risky and less expensive -- but also somewhat less effective. In IVM, tiny un-ripened eggs are harvested from follicles and matured in a kind of hormone soup in the lab. Just as with IVF, the eggs are fertilized, and the resulting embryos put back in the uterus.

Women who are 35 or less who have a good number of resting follicles in their ovaries, and there's about a 40-45 percent chance of pregnancy per IVM cycle. IVM is safer for women with polycystic-like ovaries, about 30 percent of all women because it involves no ovarian stimulation. It is simpler because it's a much quicker treatment: Women basically turn up and have the egg collection, maybe one scan beforehand, and it's cheaper. Cheaper, faster and less risks? Keep on the look-out for more on IVM.


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