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Expanded Carrier Screening (ECS)

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What are carrier screening and expanded carrier screening? When a woman is pregnant or planning to become pregnant, the woman wants everything to go right. While most babies are born healthy, with every pregnancy there is a small chance of having a baby with a genetic disorder. With carrier screenin...

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Ovarian reserve tests

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Indication(s): Infertility; Known risk factors for tubal blockage e.g. endometriosis, history of pelvic infection, history of pelvic or abdominal surgeries. The Procedure: No anaesthesia is required. If you are worried about pain, you may take 2 tablets of paracetamol an hour before the pro...

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Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)

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A hysterosalpingogram (HSG) is a fertility test to determine if the fallopian tubes are open or blocked, and whether a blockage is located at the junction of the tube and uterus (proximal) or whether it is at the other end of the fallopian tube (distal). The uterine cavity is also evaluated for the ...

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Assisted Hatching

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What is assisted hatching? The developing embryo is normally surrounded by a protective shell called the zona pullucida. The embryo naturally breaks out of this shell before it can implant in the womb. If the shell is too thick or too hard, it will be difficult for the embryo to hatch. Assisted hatc...

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Blastocyst Transfer

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When are embryos transferred back to the womb? Embryos can be transferred back to the womb at 2 different stages of their development: cleavage stage embryos on Day 2 or Day 3 of their development, blastocyst stage embryos on Day 5 of their development. What is the difference between blastocy...

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Conventional IVF and Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

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What is Conventional IVF ? Conventional IVF is a process by which the sperms and eggs are mixed together, and the sperms penetrate the eggs by themselves. This insemination method is suitable for couples with adequate active and normal sperms. However, a small percentage of couples (<5%) may have...

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Pre-implantation Genetic Testing –Chromosomal Structural Rearrangements (PGT-SR)

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What is PGT and PGT-SR? Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT), previously known as Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), is a technique used alongside IVF by couples who have a particular inherited condition to avoid passing it on to their children. Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Chromoso...

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Pre-implantation Genetic Testing–Monogenic / Single Gene Disorders (PGT-M)

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What is PGT and PGT-M? Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT), previously known as Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), is a technique used alongside IVF by couples who have a particular inherited condition to avoid passing it on to their children. Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic...

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Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A)

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What is PGT-A? Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A), previously called Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS), is a technique used alongside IVF for testing whether embryos have problems with the number of their chromosomes, because transferring an embryo with an incorrect num...

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Egg Freezing

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What is egg freezing? A woman’s chance of conceiving naturally falls as she gets older because the quality and number of her eggs drops. Egg freezing is an attempt to preserve a woman’s fertility by freezing the eggs when she is young and the eggs are of higher quality, so she can try to have [&...

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Is it necessary to have antibody testing after getting the COVID-19 Vaccine?

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If you have completed the COVID-19 vaccines and are considering an antibody test, you should understand how to interpret the test result first. What are antibody tests? When a virus, such as the COVID-19 virus, invades your body, the B lymphocytes in the blood will produce antibodies to destroy the ...

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Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT)

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Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT) is a technique used alongside IVF to check if the embryos created in an IVF cycle have abnormalities in their chromosomes or genes, before transferring them back into the womb. Couples who are known to have abnormalities either in the chromosomes or in the gene...

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Can couples who plan to try for a pregnancy receive a COVID-19 vaccine?

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There are two types of COVID-19 vaccines available in Hong Kong at the moment – CoronaVac produced by Sinovac Biotech and Comirnaty produced by Fosun Pharma / BioNTech. CoronaVac is an inactivated virus vaccine that uses a dead virus to help our bodies develop an immune response. The dead virus ca...

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Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)

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What is intrauterine insemination (IUI)? Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is a fertility treatment that uses a catheter to place washed sperms directly into the womb. The goal of IUI is to increase the number of sperms that reach the fallopian tubes thereby increase the chance of fertilization. Who m...

Expanded Carrier Screening (ECS)

Ovarian reserve tests

Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)

Assisted Hatching

Blastocyst Transfer

Conventional IVF and Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Pre-implantation Genetic Testing –Chromosomal Structural Rearrangements (PGT-SR)

Pre-implantation Genetic Testing–Monogenic / Single Gene Disorders (PGT-M)

Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A)

Egg Freezing

Is it necessary to have antibody testing after getting the COVID-19 Vaccine?

Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT)

Can couples who plan to try for a pregnancy receive a COVID-19 vaccine?

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)

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