Embryo Donation Cyprus

Embryo donation is a treatment option with a double donation aspect, where the patients receive both egg donation and sperm donation when planning their pregnancy. Suitable patient groups for IVF with embryo donation include:

— Couples with both male and female factor infertility where the female partner is unable to achieve and/or maintain a pregnancy with her own eggs and where the male partner's sperm sample is not of fertilizing capacity. Assessment of both male and female fertility levels will be important to concluded that there exists need for a double donation.

— Couples who are carriers of diseased alleles for a genetic mutation are also suitable candidates for embryo donation as they are at an elevated risk of transmitting an inherited genetic disease down to their offspring when own eggs and sperm cells are used for a pregnancy.

— Single women whose ovarian reserves have been depleted and need to use both an egg donor and a sperm donor for an IVF pregnancy.

Embryo donation works very much like "IVF with Egg Donation" in terms of the steps involved in treatment. The female partner receives the same type of treatment as a patient undergoing "IVF with Egg Donation". The only difference is, on the day of your donor's egg retrieval procedure, instead of a partner's sperm, donor sperm is used for fertilization. Otherwise, procedures and steps involved will be identical to those followed in IVF with Egg Donation treatment.

Who are Egg and Sperm Donors at North Cyprus IVF?

All donor sperm used at North Cyprus IVF Centre comes from certified cryobanks from Europe and the United States. All sperm samples purchased from cryobanks come with a certificate indicating that the sperm donor has been tested for necessary infectious diseases, has undergone genetic screening and has fulfilled the necessary criteria for donating sperm. Sperm donor profiles are available to patients to select from.

Egg donors, on the other hand, are used fresh, meaning, we do not offer our treatments with frozen donor eggs, but rather, we prepare egg donors for a fresh cycle at the same time that the recipient is being prepared to receive her embryos. Egg donor recruitment has very strict criteria at North Cyprus IVF Centre.

You will be provided with a donor/recipient form where you can specify your requests for your egg donor. With the information that you provide, our donor coordinator will provide you with egg donor matches to choose from.