Cutting-Edge Fertility Clinic Technology Boosts Success Rates
By providing you with access to all the advanced technology available, our team at Cape Fertility not only ensures we remain a top fertility clinic choice in South Africa, but also that we maintain our exceptional pregnancy success rates.
Numerous major technological developments have completely transformed fertility treatment since the ground-breaking success of the first IVF – or In Vitro Fertilisation – treatment in the late 1970s.
IVF fundamentally revolutionised reproductive medicine, enabling conception in situations where it was previously medically impossible. Originally designed for women with blocked or missing fallopian tubes, IVF is now the answer to a wide variety of fertility challenges.
Put simply, in vitro fertilisation involves collecting eggs from the female partner (or from an egg donor) and fertilising them with sperm in a laboratory setting. The developed embryo is subsequently implanted into the prospective mother’s uterus.
Multiple technological innovations have significantly enhanced IVF success rates and other fertility treatment outcomes. These encompass automatic sperm analysis, ICSI, laser biopsy, time lapse technology, and Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) – all representing remarkable developments that have further enhanced IVF pregnancy rates.
Automated Sperm Analysis
A ground-breaking innovation for male infertility treatment is automated sperm analysis. Previously, sperm samples underwent microscopic examination based purely on visual assessment. Currently, through automated sperm analysis, sperm samples undergo computerised checking and automatic analysis.
Cape Fertility has offered patients access to a Sperm Class Analyzer CASA System since 2017. Computer analysis delivers superior accuracy compared to human analysis, thereby enhancing pregnancy prospects.
Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection – ICSI
ICSI transformed male infertility treatment completely. Prior to ICSI, treating male infertility presented significant challenges. Today, virtually every man can father his own biological child, provided sperm is available.
In conventional IVF treatment, eggs undergo fertilisation in an advanced laboratory through mixing eggs ‘in vitro’ (in glass) with thousands of processed sperm. ICSI replaces this procedure in specific cases, enabling egg fertilisation by directly injecting one healthy sperm into the egg using micromanipulation microscopy.
Time Lapse Technology
Following egg fertilisation in the IVF process, the resulting embryos are transferred to incubators for several days of nurturing and development. Here, another technology has dramatically enhanced success rates: time lapse technology.
Cape Fertility patients benefit from EmbryoScope™ IVF incubators featuring built-in cameras for continuous automated imaging. These images create time lapse videos of embryo development over five days.
This eliminates the need to remove embryos from incubators every alternate day for embryologist progress monitoring, minimising embryo stress and producing superior embryos with enhanced pregnancy rates.
Additionally, it delivers comprehensive embryo information, enabling embryologists to distinguish between normally developing embryos with strong implantation potential and development patterns indicating implantation failure risk.
This technology has supported over 50,000 treatments globally and improves pregnancy rates while reducing miscarriage rates. Cape Fertility statistics show that EmbryoScope™ delivers 10% higher clinical pregnancy rates and 10% higher blastocyst rates (quality embryos) compared to standard incubators. Additional information about this technology is available here.
Laser-Assisted Biopsy
Laser-assisted biopsy enables removal of several cells from incubating embryos. This facilitates superior genetic testing as outlined below. These procedures are conducted by embryologists with extensive experience in the intricate embryo biopsy process.
Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis
Another exciting technological breakthrough is an advancement for embryo genetic evaluation that has additionally enhanced embryo implantation success rates: pre-implantation genetic screening and diagnosis. Cape Fertility has provided both Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) since 2003.
Previously, embryo selection relied primarily on visual appearance. However, now, fertility specialists can extract several cells from three or five-day-old laboratory embryos and test them for genetic diseases and chromosomal abnormalities. Testing embryos for chromosomal abnormalities before implantation ensures only normal embryos are transferred, substantially improving success rates.
Where to Access These Technologies in Cape Town, South Africa?
All these technological innovations are available at Cape Fertility.
Our cutting-edge facilities are purpose-built, with dedicated IVF Procedure Rooms, Embryo Transfer Rooms, and a sophisticated modern laboratory adjacent to our Main Reception and Staff Offices, enabling all the latest assisted conception techniques to achieve outstanding success.
Cape Fertility continuously invests in high-quality new technology, allowing us to deliver exceptional service. We provide access to numerous technologies unavailable in standard IVF clinics, therefore offering superior results.
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Cape Fertility values every individual patient and we look forward to delivering to you our signature individualised and personalised care.