Thursday, January 06, 2011

Online calculator to predict chances of success for couples planning IVF

Online calculator to predict chances of success for couples planning IVF : A team of scientists from the Department of reproductive health and maternal medicine at the University of Glasgow and Bristol, the United Kingdom, an online calculator that predict successful IVF success rates at birth developed woman undergoing IVF treatment.

It should be noted that IVF treatment is expensive and the success rate is not 100 percent, and as such the online calculator is very important.

"Successful in the United States and the United Kingdom, about one third of IVF in women under 35, but only 5% -10% of women over 40 years," said Professor Scott Nelson University of Glasgow, who is also one of the authors of the study .


"There are many other factors besides age that can affect your chances of success, and clinics are generally not included in guidance for couples or women, he warned.

About the online calculator
Calculator IVF was developed taking into account the present data of more than 144,000 IVF cycles with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of IVF carried out by 2003 to 2007.

It is free of ivfpredict.com and provides important information about the likely outcome for couples planning a baby with IVF has ensured 99 percent accuracy.

"Basically, these results are showing that specific factors are used for treatment to provide infertile couples with a very accurate assessment of their chances of success after IVF," Professor Nelson said.

Debbie Lawlor, professor of epidemiology at the University of Bristol and co-author of the study, said that in addition to the pair, "the sponsors of health care as the NHS" can also use "an appropriate use of resources."

To the online calculator for IVF, the user must answer nine questions about his age, years have been trying to conceive, the doctor's report on infertility, made prior IVF attempts and the results for the same.

Positives
This research is being hailed as a breakthrough for the field of IVF treatment and can help make accurate predictions about the results.

Professor Gordon Smith, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cambridge said: "It is a real need to try in medicine to replace general statements such as" high risk "and" happiness "validated with many, quantitative estimates of the probability, as we with Down's syndrome screening have. "

The study was detailed in the Public Library of Science.

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