In which cases is IVF treatment applied?

Inability to have children due to severe sperm (male egg cell) disorder and male infertility,
The woman’s both tubes (egg carrier channels) are blocked or inoperable and she cannot get pregnant due to tubal factor,
Due to the woman’s surgery, serious adhesions or damage to the tubes and ovaries and unable to become pregnant,
A woman who cannot become pregnant due to a diagnosis of chocolate cyst or endometriosis,
The woman was given advanced egg-enhancing treatment (gonadotropin hormone therapy), vaccinated but pregnancy could not be achieved, with unexplained infertility,
Women diagnosed with low ovarian reserve, elevated FSH, low AMH, or women who want to have a baby at an advanced age,
In vitro fertilization treatment is applied to couples who have serious ovulation problems such as PCOS and cannot conceive, or whose hormones (FSH, LH, Estrogen) to ensure egg development are very low (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism) and need to receive treatment to increase egg development.

In vitro fertilization can also be applied in the following special medical cases:

In oncofertility applications, where eggs or embryos must be frozen before treatments such as cancer surgery or chemotherapy, radiotherapy that may adversely affect the ovaries and damage reproductive function,
In case a suitable donor cannot be found for the treatment of the current child’s disease, if the birth of an HLA-matched sibling is required for stem cell or marrow transplantation,
In cases where there is a known medical genetic problem such as SMA, DMD, and translocation in prospective parents, embryo biopsy and PGT (preimplantation genetic examination) are performed from the embryos obtained by in vitro fertilization and the transfer of the embryo that is found to be healthy as a result of genetic examination, in vitro fertilization treatment is applied.

Are there risks to IVF treatment?

The risks in IVF treatment may depend on the treatments used or the procedure applied. Perhaps the most important of these is ‘ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS’), also known as ‘ovarian overstimulation syndrome’. There are several stages of this syndrome. Although mild forms can be outpatient, severe forms require hospitalization and treatment. Life-threatening forms are less likely to occur. Apart from this, minimal risks of bleeding, infection and anesthesia of the surgical procedure can also be seen. Another risk of IVF treatment is multiple pregnancy. For this reason, expectant mothers who become pregnant with in vitro fertilization treatment should be followed more closely.