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The clinics providing Imsi are listed below. Contact them today to get a quote, make an appointment or have an online consultation.

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The Colombian Center for Fertility and Sterility

The globally recognized Colombian Center for Fertility and Sterility (CECOLFES) offers couples the opportunity to identify and solve the problems encountered in having children.

  • Testimonial: " Fantastic! My husband and I tried InVitro in the US and spent entirely too much money and did not get pregnant. " dukiemud
  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • Additional Services: Hotel Reservations, Local Accommodation Assistance, Airport Transfers

Barcelona IVF Barcelona / Spain
Barcelona IVF

A professional and experienced team in Assisted Reproduction whose aim is to provide you the maximum quality with regard to diagnostic and fertility treatment.

  • Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, Czech, German
  • Additional Services: Hotel Reservations

Ginemed Seville / Spain
Ginemed

Spain is famous in the world for infertility and reproductive medicine technologies, and Ginemed is no exception. Ginemed is home away from home for foreign patients seeking quality and affordable fertility options. From its precise quality control procedures, extensive egg donor databases, Ginemed is leading the reproductive technologies and research in the field of fertility in Seville and Spain. Italians, French, and British among other foreign patients are quite familiar with traveling to Ginemed to receive egg donation and IVF treatments in Seville.

  • Testimonial: " treatment has worked first time. " Anonymous
  • Languages: Arabic, Italian, French, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Russian, Spanish
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Hotel Reservations, Flight Booking Assistance, Hotel to Clinic Transfers, Local Accommodation Assistance, Local Tours, Recuperation Services, Translator Services

PraxisKlinik for Fertility Berlin

As experts in Germany IVF practice, fertility doctors at fertility Berlin clinic base their approach in treatment on state of the art science and advanced therapeutic techniques.

  • Languages: German, English, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Translator Services

Fertility Argentina Buenos Aires / Argentina
Fertility Argentina

Fertility Argentina combines fertility treatments with a sincere, caring environment to provide you with personal and professional care. Its goal is to make you feel confident and comfortable with undergoing fertility treatments abroad.

  • Testimonial: " Excellent communication with the Dr G " Lucida
  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Flight Booking Assistance, Hotel Reservations, Hotel to Clinic Transfers, Local Accommodation Assistance, Local Tours, Translator Services

emBIO Medical Center Athens / Greece
emBIO Medical Center

The best fertility experience provided through the latest reproductive techniques, and a personal doctor-patient relationship

  • Testimonial: " Because of you and your colleagues we now have two wonderful daughters, a great nephew and friends for our children. " G&K, Athens, Greece
  • Languages: English, Greek, French, Russian, Italian, German
  • Additional Services: Local Accommodation Assistance

Memorial Health Group - Infertility Treatment Center

Memorial IVF, Andrology and Genetic Center provides top quality service with its experienced team, strong infrastructure and modern treatment methods.

  • Testimonial: " I NEVER FORGET THIS LOVELY EXPERIENCE " stan alina
  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Italian, Macedonian, Albanian, Dutch, Kurdish
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Local Accommodation Assistance

Acibadem Healthcare Group - Infertility Treatment Center

Acibadem has signed a cooperation agreement with Harvard Medical International which is a world famous institution in terms of medical education and services.

  • Testimonial: " We never felt like in a strange place and that was important for both of us, considering the emotional loading of this procedure. " Oana & Dragos
  • Languages: English, Turkish
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Hotel Reservations, Hotel to Clinic Transfers

Surrogacy Agency Armenia Yerevan / Armenia
Surrogacy Agency Armenia

New life is a fertility surrogacy clinic well-known across Armenia and around the world for offering the premium standard in the field of assisted reproduction. The clinic offers comprehensive, value-based programs in both egg donation and surrogacy for clients across the globe.

  • Languages: English, Armenian, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, and Translators available.
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Local Accommodation Assistance

Belgian Lebanese Center for Infertility

Belgian Lebanese Center for Infertility is one of the Middle East’s most advanced fertility centers offering a variety of state-of-the-art treatments.

  • Languages: Arabic, English, French
  • Additional Services: Airport Transfers, Translator Services

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What is Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI)?

Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) is a modified form of the ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) technique, however the only difference is that it carefully selects the best quality sperm by magnifying 6000 times more than the conventional ICSI method.

 

Patients with severe oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (low sperm count) can benefit from IMSI.

 

Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI) Procedure

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is a method in which a single sperm is injected into the center of the cytoplasm of the egg to increase the chances of fertilization. ICSI procedure channels only one egg and one sperm needed to produce one embryo.

 

IMSI Treatment Stages:

1. Medication: The woman (recipient) will be prescribed medication to help control ovulation. Medications will also be prescribed to increase the egg supply.

2. Keeping track of Progress: To keep track of the recipient’s progress, the clinic will monitor the eggs by vaginal ultrasound scans. They will also do blood tests to chart the rising levels of estrogen produced by the eggs, which will help keep track of how the eggs are maturing.

3. The woman will receive a hormone injection to help the eggs mature 34-38 hours before the eggs are to be collected.

4. Collecting the Eggs: Eggs are usually collected by the guidance of an ultrasound, which usually takes about 30 minutes. The doctor will insert a thin needle through the vagina into each ovary. The eggs will then be drawn into the needle. Eggs are collected by laparoscopy (a small telescope with a light attached). This procedure involves making a small incision in the stomach and extracting the eggs with a fine needle.

5. Collecting the Sperm: Around the same time that the eggs are collected, a sperm sample will be taken from the male partner and stored for a short time. The sperm will be washed and spun, and then the healthiest sperm will be selected to fertilize with the egg. If donor sperm is being used, the sperm will be taken from the freezer and prepared in the same way.

6. Fertilization: Once the sperm and egg are collected, they are combined in a Petri dish, and monitored for 20-40 hours. If fertilization has occurred, the resulting embryo is monitored for several days to follow its cellular division. In order for the fertilization to be successful, it must first divide into two cells, then four, and finally into eight. The embryo can then be transferred into the recipient’s uterus.

7. Transfer Embryo: The embryo transfer can occur 1-5 days after fertilization occurs, depending on factors that the couple will discuss with the embryologist, such as low sperm count and embryo development. Same day embryo transfer, in which the embryos are transferred about 4 hours after fertilization, is becoming more common since it allows recipients to undergo the procedure on an outpatient basis. Most embryologists recommend that the recipient wait until day five to transfer the embryo, which is known as the blastocyst stage. The blastocyst transfer has also become quite common as it increases chances of successful implantation and decreases the likelihood of multiple pregnancies.

8. Insemination: This process is the last stage of the IVF procedure. It is usually painless and does not require any anesthesia. The embryos are transferred into the uterus through the cervix with a catheter. Typically 2-4 embryos are transferred into the uterus to increase the chances of pregnancy. If done successfully, the patient can go home and should rest for the remainder of the day. A pregnancy test will be given 12-15 days after the embryo transfer. If the IVF is successful, a normal pregnancy can be carried out.

 

Risks and Side Effects of Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI)

Risks and side effects include possible displacement of the embryos into the cervix, resulting in a lost embryo, or in the fallopian tubes, resulting in tubal (ectopic) pregnancy; multiple pregnancies. If IVF is successful, a normal pregnancy will be carried out. If IVF with ICSI results in an unsuccessful pregnancy or no pregnancy, different methods of IVF should be considered, such as Egg Donor IVF, Sperm Donor IVF or Embryo Donor IVF.

 

Transferring the embryo may cause mild bleeding and cramping.

 

Recovery from Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI)

After the procedure, the patient should return home to rest for the remainder of the day, and should avoid strenuous activities for the next three days.

 

Length of stay in country: 21-25 days, 14 if treatment commences in home country

 

Success Rates of IVF

Many factors are to be taken into consideration when calculating the overall success rate of IVF procedures. IVF success rates depend on the age of the woman, the number of embryos transferred and cryopreserved, the recipient’s response to drugs, and the clinic. So, pregnancy rate per cycle can range from 10-50% for women under 35. Success rates slightly decline with older age groups.

 

Last updated on December 12th, 2011