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IVF and Fertility Specialists Clinic
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Egg Donation - IVF with Donor EggsAdvanced Fertility Center of Chicago
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| For 2003-2006 our donor egg clinic success rate (live birth rate) was: | 64% per transfer |
| For 2003-2006 the National Average for donor egg clinics was: | 52% per transfer |
What is the cost of an egg donation pregnancy? |
The process of human egg donation began in 1982 with the first live birth success. Currently, there are more than 15,000 embryo transfer procedures performed annually in the US using donor eggs, and many thousands more performed around the world. The national donor eggs success rate is currently over 50% per transfer procedure, with some egg donation clinics specializing in donor eggs (such as ours) reporting egg donation success rates that average over 60% per donor egg transfer procedure.
Egg donation (also called oocyte donation or ovum donation) can be used as an effective treatment for infertility of all causes except for women with infertility caused by an anatomic problem with the uterus, such as severe intrauterine adhesions.
Pregnancy success rates with egg donation are high, particularly as compared to pregnancy rates in women with poor egg quality and quantity.

Ultrasound images of a properly prepared receptive uterine lining
endometrium
In this case the endometrial lining thickness is 11.5mm

Picture on right shows uterus outlined in blue and "triple stripe" endometrial lining outlined in yellow
The endometrium is the landing pad and implantation zone for the embryos
When the donor's follicles are mature, an egg aspiration procedure is performed to remove the eggs from her ovaries. The eggs are then fertilized in the laboratory with the sperm of the infertile woman's male partner. The eggs are used fresh and are not frozen for later use. In the future, frozen donor eggs might be used routinely for egg donation. However, current egg freezing technology is inadequate for providing a reasonable success rate after thawing the frozen eggs. Success rates are extremely low using frozen donor eggs (freezing of leftover fertilized embryos is routine, and success rates using frozen embryos are reasonable).
Getting the proper timing in IVF with donor eggs between the uterine lining in the recipient and the developing embryos is critical for success. This is accomplished by carefully controlling the start time of the drug (hormone) progesterone (P4) in the recipient female. Not all egg donation clinics start progesterone at exactly the same time - our protocol starts P4 on the evening before the donor's egg retrieval procedure.
The embryos develop in the laboratory for 3 to 5 days. Then, an embryo transfer procedure is done which places the embryos in the infertile woman's uterus where they will hopefully implant and develop to result in the successful birth of a healthy baby.