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IVF Pregnancy Outcomes And Statistics
- The unit is committed to improving clinical pregnancy rates and take home baby rates, but also reducing the risk of miscarriage and complications associated with multiple births by transferring fewer embryos.
- Pregnancy rates for IVF and related treatments are dependent to a certain degree on the individual couple's cause of infertility, their age and average number of embryos transferred.
- Pregnancy rates per egg pick-up (EPU) will also be less than pregnancy rates per embryo transfer (ET).
- Pregnancy rates per embryo transfer are a more accurate indication of success of treatment as certainly in our unit 12% of oocyte retrievals do not result in an embryo transfer and all the embryos are frozen because of the risk of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome. This is due to the unit not proceeding with transfer to minimise the risk of hyperstimulation (which can be a life threatening complication of IVF) or if the endometrium (inner lining) of the uterus does not appear favourable on ultrasound scan.
- The unit has a very successful freezing program and patients are in no way disadvantaged by undertaking future frozen embryo transfer cycles.
- The pregnancy rates for 2006 for the current accredited clinicians are detailed below.
- RTAC has emphasized that units must supply statistically meaningful data which must include at least 12 months of experience and include numbers of cycles and pregnancies not just percentages.
- Wesley Monash IVF pregnancy rates have consistently been above the national average supplied by NPSU.
| Wesley IVF 2006 Results |
Number of Transfers |
Clinical Pregnancies | Pregnancy Rate/Embryo Transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard IVF & ICSI (All ages) | 284 | 111 | 39.1% |
| < 35 yrs | 130 | 64 | 49.2% |
| 35 - 39 yrs | 124 | 39 | 31.5% |
| > 40 | 30 | 8 | 26.7% |
| FET | 306 | 84 | 27.5% |
It is important to realize that the average conception rate for normally fertile couples is only 21% per month; and by the age of 40, it is only 5%.
Cumulative pregnancy rates are perhaps a more realistic representation of a couple's chance of achieving a pregnancy. Patients having their first stimulated cycle in 2002 and subsequent 1 or 2 frozen transfer cycles from this cycle had a 52% chance of a clinical pregnancy with only 1-2 embryos transferred.
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