Different Artificial Insemination and IVF
January 14th, 2012 | 
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You and your partner have a health check, and have undergone any treatment improve your fertility. Unfortunately, pregnancy programs you never succeed. Finally, you intend to IVF. But, listen, listen, there are also called artificial insemination. What’s the difference?
Artificial insemination, or also called Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is a procedure whereby washed sperm from ejaculation to put the best concentration of the sperm into the catheter. The catheter is then inserted through the cervix into the uterus where sperm are stored. After that, depending on the sperm, how that he could find a way to reach the fallopian tubes and found the eggs to be fertilized.
This procedure can only be performed on women with open fallopian tubes, and is usually combined with some form of stimulation of the uterus, such as injectable gonadotropins. It’s kind of medical preparation of the hormones produced by the brain to stimulate the uterus to prepare eggs to be released.
These treatments can be used to handle some cases of unexplained infertility, and cases tend to have low sperm counts.
Meanwhile, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or commonly called IVF, is a process where the ovaries are usually stimulated to produce many eggs are then extracted from the uterus through suction. This procedure is done by performing general anaesthesia, but without mechanical ventilation tube put through your throat.
The egg and sperm are then placed in a saucer to allow fertilization occurs, and incubated for 3-5 days. Some of the resulting embryos then are placed in the catheter and deposited in the uterus with remaining frozen embryos.
IVF is usually done among others by women with blocked fallopian tubes, advanced reproductive age, men with low sperm counts, infertility or unexplained causes.
Embryo chromosomes could 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 IVF is quite expensive cost, the technology used is now increasingly the likelihood of success.
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