What to do if you have an ectopic pregnancy through IVF?

With the development of society, the incidence of ectopic pregnancy is becoming more and more serious. There are many reasons for ectopic pregnancy. Although women have taken comprehensive preventive measures before pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy is still inevitable. Even if some people now do in vitro fertilization, ectopic pregnancy may still occur. So how to solve the problem of ectopic pregnancy in in vitro fertilization?

What to do if you have an ectopic pregnancy through IVF?

Experimental studies have found that embryos transplanted into the uterine cavity sometimes flow into the fallopian tubes with the culture medium. When the fallopian tubes function normally, they can transport the embryos back to the uterine cavity. However, when the fallopian tubes and pelvic cavity are diseased, the normal peristalsis of the fallopian tubes disappears and the embryos cannot be transported back to the uterine cavity, and an ectopic pregnancy occurs. In addition, when doing in vitro fertilization, if the embryo quality is poor, the number of transplanted embryos is large, or if you have endometriosis, the incidence of ectopic pregnancy will increase.

The symptoms of ectopic pregnancy are often atypical. Some patients may go into shock due to heavy bleeding, become pale, and have low blood pressure. At this time, you should consider whether an ectopic pregnancy has occurred and provide timely treatment.

How to put a test tube baby into the belly?

1. Preliminary preparation and egg retrieval

After the initial follicle-stimulating treatment, eggs can be retrieved about 36 hours after the ovulation-stimulating injection. On the day of egg retrieval, the woman collects eggs and the man collects sperm. Egg retrieval process: Under ultrasound guidance, a needle is inserted into the ovary through the vagina and the follicular fluid and eggs are aspirated. The entire egg retrieval operation takes less than half an hour, and anesthesia is provided according to different situations. It is not as painful as rumored.

After the egg retrieval, the busiest time arrives. Doctors have to put the obtained eggs and optimized sperm together or directly perform sperm-egg microinjection, observe whether fertilization occurs, and carry out a series of key steps such as embryo culture.

2. Egg Collection

On a constant temperature hot plate, find the eggs mixed in the follicular blood one by one, wash them, quickly transfer them to a culture dish, and place them in an embryo incubator.

The man completes the sperm collection on the day the woman's egg retrieval takes place, and the laboratory doctor waits for the semen sample to liquefy before optimizing the process.

The most important equipment in the embryo laboratory is the incubator. Each incubator is equivalent to a female uterus. The temperature is maintained at 37°C, and the humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, etc. are adjusted with reference to relevant human body indexes.

3. In vitro fertilization

After the eggs are collected, a certain number of active sperm are added, which is called conventional in vitro fertilization (commonly known as the first generation of test tube babies). The sperm and eggs complete the fertilization process in an environment similar to the natural environment. The second method of fertilization is intracytoplasmic sperm injection (commonly known as the second-generation test-tube baby), which is a technology that uses a microinjection needle to directly puncture the sperm into the egg cytoplasm to complete the fertilization of the egg. Simply put, microinjection is a type of artificial intervention fertilization method that only requires a few to dozens of sperm. This technology has brought hope to male patients who were previously considered incurable. The two fertilization methods are suitable for different groups of people and are determined by clinicians based on the indications.