This allows the lab to more accurately identify embryos with a high probability of causing a pregnancy. The FEC Lab has adapted the latest culture methodologies to its operation and offers the option of blastocyst culture to our patients. Not all follicles aspirated can be expected to yield an oocyte. The patient is notified about the number of eggs that have fertilized the day after egg retrieval. Detailed information about the developing embryos will be available at the time of embryo transfer, at which point the patient will have an opportunity to discuss these results with the physician.
Some patients require special therapy to achieve fertilization .
The female patient lies on a table in the procedure room as if she were going to have a Pap smear. There will be no anesthetic agent required. A very fine catheter is placed inside the uterus through the cervix and the embryo or embryos will be transferred into the uterine cavity. A partner or friend is recommended to be with the patient during the transfer. After embryo transfer the patient rests in bed for about fifteen minutes.