KOMPAS.com - you and your spouse have health check, and have any treatment to improve your fertility. Unfortunately, the program you are still not successful pregnancy. Finally, you intend to participate in an IVF program. But, listen, listen, there are also called artificial insemination. What's the difference?
Artificial insemination, or is also called intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is a procedure in which washed sperm from ejaculation to locate the best concentration of the sperm into the catheter. This catheter was then inserted through the cervix into the uterus where sperm are stored. After that, depending on the sperm, so how could he find a way to reach the fallopian tubes and found the eggs to be fertilized.
This procedure can only be performed in women with fallopian tube is open, and is usually combined with some form of stimulation of the uterus, such as injectable Gonadotropins. This kind of medical preparation of the hormones produced by the brain to stimulate the uterus to prepare eggs to be released.
This treatment can be used to treat some cases of unexplained infertility, and cases tend to be low sperm counts.
While the In Vitro fertilization (IVF) or IVF program commonly called, is a process where the ovaries are stimulated to produce many eggs are then extracted from the uterus via suction. This procedure is done by general anesthesia, but without inserting a mechanical ventilation tube through your throat.
Egg and sperm and then placed in a saucer to allow fertilization occurs, and incubated for 3-5 days. Some of the resulting embryo then placed inside the catheter and stored in the uterus with remaining frozen embryos.
IVF is usually done among others by women with blocked fallopian tubes, the advanced reproductive age, men with low sperm count, or unexplained infertility causes.
Embryo chromosomes can also be evaluated through a separate procedure called Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) to assess whether an embryo has a genetic abnormality such as Down's Syndrome. Although the IVF program was more expensive, are now increasingly used technology increase the likelihood of success.[kompas.com]