Worldwide 10-15% of reproductive age pairs show difficulty in achieving pregnancy. Nevertheless, there are women who will fulfill a child's dream only with the help of another woman who will donate her eggs.
THE egg donation enables women who in no way could become pregnant to complete their family. They are mainly the ones that do not have eggs or the ones that do exist are few and of poor quality as in women of great reproductive age. Also women with premature ovarian failure, ie those whose period ends before the age of 40 or with a genetic disease such as Turner syndrome at risk of transmitting the problem to their children. Finally, patients with cancer or autoimmune diseases who have undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy where they have irreparably damaged their ovaries need borrowed eggs.
The dilemmas that the recipients more concerned with the health of the resulting child. As we know the eggs of a woman over 40 have a high chance of chromosomal abnormalities and serious health problems for the child. So the woman benefits from a healthy baby since the eggs come from young women.
THE egg donor before the procedure will be submitted to thorough control where we get a detailed medical history, blood tests are performed as defined by the new law and gynecological examination. If her health condition is good then she will take hormone therapy for 10-12 days to stimulate her ovaries just like in a normal IVF cycle.
Modern prenatal testing of fetuses either in the laboratory or in pregnancy leaves no room for doubt for new parents. In the Clinic of specialist doctor Alexandros Traianos provided to couples all legal and clinical information around egg donation to secure the future family.
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