Increasing your chances for a healthy pregnancy with PGT-A

In the past few years, there have been major advancements in the treatment of infertility. Now, for a large majority of people, an infertility diagnosis does not mean the end of your journey to parenthood. Sometimes the treatment is straightforward, but there is good news too, for couples who need a more advanced approach. Our success rates for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) continue to increase dramatically thanks to innovative treatment enhancements like Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A).

IVF involves fertilizing an egg with sperm in a lab to create embryos, which are then transferred into the uterus. Embryos are then “graded” by their appearance which is often used as guidance to determine which ones would provide the best chance for implantation and a healthy pregnancy. While this process does still offer a good success rate, it can be inaccurate – many embryos that look normal fail to implant because the embryo has an abnormal number of chromosomes. PGT-A allows us to determine with much greater accuracy which embryos are the most likely to result in a successful ongoing pregnancy with 46 chromosomes.