Blastocyst Transfer

Blastocyst Transfer offers a way to eliminate high order multiple gestations, while maintaining high clinical pregnancy rates.

A select group of patients may benefit from extending the time of embryo culture to five or six days, especially those patients with many embryos of roughly equal quality in which it is hard to choose the best ones for transfer on day two or day three (namely; young patients with many follicles and recipients of young donors).

A Blastocyst Transfer has many advantages. First, by extending the length of culture to 5 or 6 days, we would support embryonic "Self Selection", resulting in embryos with superior morphological quality available for transfer, thereby transferring only best quality embryos.

Further limiting the number of embryos to transfer, this may reduce the number of high order multiple pregnancies.

The only concern for extended culture in vitro is the production of large number of embryos exhibiting cleavage arrest or cleavage abnormalities such as cell fragmentation, leading to the possibility of failure of blastocyst development and resulting in the cancellation of embryo transfer.

At PRC, we are pleased to offer this new promising technique to our patients.