If a woman cannot successfully conceive after medication and treatment, after consulting a doctor, she may choose to undergo a more complicated procedure called assisted reproductive technology (ART).
These include:
Intrauterine insemination (IUI) uses a long thin tube to put sperm into a woman's uterus. Intrauterine insemination can be combined with drugs that induce ovulation; this combination can increase the chance of pregnancy.
The success rate of artificial insemination depends on the cause of the couple's infertility. If insemination is performed once a month (fresh or frozen sperm), the success rate may reach a maximum of 20% per cycle. This depends on whether fertility drugs are used, the woman’s age and the diagnosis of infertility, and other factors that may affect the success of the cycle.
Artificial insemination (IVF) refers to obtaining sperm and eggs from a couple, and then culturing them in laboratory culture fluid to produce embryos. The doctor will then transfer the embryos into the woman's uterus to make her pregnant successfully.
The steps of IVF include: ovulation induction, egg retrieval, in vitro fertilization, and embryo transfer.
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