Does the embryoscope help ?

Mane fertilility clinics are using the embryo scope, however data shows that it only increase the complexity and the cost for the patient?

Embryo scope is that helping our patients?

Many of our patients are asking us: ”Are you using the embryo scope in the clinic ?”

The reply is always. It is important to understand that you should not implement a new method without a reasonable technical and safety evaluation of the procedure including analyses of the benefit for the patients, before taking it into the treatment regime.

During this analysis we found several scientific studies showing, that the embryo scope, although providing nice videos of the developing embryo, does not improve the pregnancy rate for the routine use in the lab.

This finding is now again supported by a large meta-analysis including several hundreds of patients. A Canadian study supports this.

The embryo scope provide excellent culture conditions for the embryos however is this already in place in you lab we find that the embryo scope is only making it more complicated and more expensive for the patient.

Referencer:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5583738/ Does time-lapse imaging have favorable results for embryo incubation and selection compared with conventional methods in clinical in vitro fertilization? A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials Minghao Chen, Shiyou Wei, Junyan Hu, Jing Yuan, Fenghua Liu PLoS One. 2017; 12(6): e0178720. Published online 2017 Jun 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178720 Recent advances in in vitro fertilization Robert Casper, Jigal Haas, Tzu-Bou Hsieh, Rawad Bassil, Chaula Mehta Version 1. F1000Res. 2017; 6: 1616. Published online 2017 Aug 31. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.11701.1