Follicle activation, management support

In recent years, a large number of women decide to postpone motherhood for various reasons, but which can affect fertility.

There are also cases of conditions such as early menopause, low ovarian reserveovarian surgery or cancer, which becomes a very complex case for reproductive medicine, and even more so if the patient wants to have a child with her own eggs.

According to experts, it is estimated that 1 in every 100 women under the age of 40 suffer from premature ovarian failure.

Faced with this situation, there is procedures complex to achieve pregnancy that want hundreds women. As is the case with ovarian rejuvenation which offers follicular activation or ovarian reactivation. What is it about?

In the reimplantation of one’s own ovarian tissue patient to activate dormant follicles that might contain a Ovumexplains Dr. Mayka Morgan, specialist in reproductive medicine at the Valencia Infertility Institute in Panama.

This tissue is then activated in laboratorythrough a laparoscopy and when the follicles are activated again, they grow and develop thanks to obtaining a sample from ovarian cortexthis is processed into different fragments and reinserted back into the ovary.

The results are a 23% success rate pregnancy in women who subsequently underwent a in vitro fertilization and those who were relocated embryos.

It’s a process surgicalbut is a technique simple in which patients They are discharged on the same day.

Namely

Thanks to the progress of reproductive medicine, ovarian rejuvenation processes are giving promising results for now, says the specialist.

It is necessary to know that every woman, even if she is not currently thinking about pregnancy or will undergo it treatment against him Cancer or ovaries, you can know your ovarian reserve using the number of follicles.

This through a study of anti-Müllerian hormone and that way they could know in advance if you need it conservation from fertility and opt for vitrification of yours egg cellsbefore it’s too late.

IVI Panama has the first Center of Excellence for Ovarian Rejuvenation in the country and region.