PID Center NRW

PID Center NRW

Pre-implantation diagnosis (PGD) is used when there is a risk of inheriting a serious (genetic) disease. In PGD, embryos are examined in the laboratory  for a specific genetic change before a pregnancy  occurs. The pregnancy then develops from unaffected embryos. In this way, the couple can be sure that there is a very high probability that the genetic change is not present in the child.

On the basis of the Preimplantation Diagnostics Act, which was passed in December 2011, PGD is permitted within narrow limits in Germany. In cooperation with the MVZ Institute for Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Genetics Rhein / Ruhr GmbH, the Dortmund fertility center received approval as a PID center in North Rhine-Westphalia in December 2015. The PGD ethics committee for North Rhine-Westphalia, to which every case must be presented, is located at the North Rhine Medical Association in Düsseldorf.