Egg donation or oocyte donation is the alternative term for IVF with egg donation cycle. The basic Egg Donation bundle costs 5000 EUR. This basic fee covers egg donation fees including egg donor’s compensation. Egg donation cycles are designed for the couples facing female factor infertility when it is impossible to collect and fertilize the intended mother’s oocytes. This cycle is ideal for women with no ovaries or with damaged ovaries when it is impossible to retrieve the oocytes. Women with genetically transmitted diseases, including sex—linked diseases are also recommended to use egg donation for the prevention of transmitting these diseases to their children. Women with ovarian failure are the ones to select egg donation for ‘securing’ their time and money as their oocytes most probably won’t be retrieved and fertilized. Poor response to ovulation induction is also an indicator to upgrade the IVF—ICSI with own oocytes and sperm to tandem oocyte donation bundle or IVF—ICSI with egg donation Pro.
Egg donation involves a dual—staged treatment protocol implementation. The couple selects the egg donor from the egg donor’s database. Following the initial consultation and matching with the oocyte donor, the treatment protocol is finalized by a fertility Pro. If the intended mother would like to try IVF—ICSI with own oocytes, the triple—staged treatment protocol is ‘issued.’
For women facing not extreme female factor infertility and wishing to try IVF—ICSI with own oocytes the ‘Tandem egg donation’ cycle or ‘Tandem oocyte cycle’ can be proposed. Tandem oocyte cycle with egg donation involves the intended mother’s and egg donor’s synchronized ovarian stimulation cycles. The egg retrieval is performed also for both women. Intended mother’s oocytes and the donor’s oocytes are fertilized with the intended father’s sperm through the ICSI technique. The all—new generated embryos are cultured for several days (usually till Day 3 or Day 5). The intended mother will have the complete info concerning the embryonic cohort. If the intended mother’s oocytes stopped their development or their genome content has the detected abnormalities (if PGD or NGS was synchronized with IVF—ICSI), the egg donor’s oocytes will be transferred in the intended mother’s uterus.
Tandem oocyte cycle (cycle with own oocytes and oocyte donation) bundle involves an extra fee and the total cost is 7000 EUR. Tandem cycle involves the intended mother’s and egg donor’s diagnostic screening and medical evaluation, the intended mother’s and egg donor’s controlled ovarian stimulation protocol, ultrasound—guided egg retrieval and egg collection from the egg donor, the partner’s or the husband’s sperm preparation, IVF—ICSI fertilization in the IVF laboratory, embryo culturing, embryo selection, embryo transfer in the intended mother’s uterus, blood pregnancy test, urine pregnancy test and early ultrasound to confirm the embryonic heartbeat. The basic fee covers the tandem oocyte cycle including the egg donor’s fee, IVF—ICSI embryo “generation” fee, and embryo transfer fee.
IVF—ICSI Tandem Oocyte Cycle (IVF—ICSI with own oocytes and donated oocytes) cycle’s stages:
●intended mother’s and intended father’s diagnostic screening and testing;
●intended mother’s and intended father’s blood tests;
●egg donor’s diagnostic screening and testing, blood tests;
●intended mother’s and egg donor’s controlled (medicated) ovarian stimulation;
●intended mother’s and egg donor’s ultrasound—guided egg retrieval;
●sperm preparation;
●ICSI fertilization;
●embryo culturing;
●embryo selection;
●fresh embryo transfer;
●blood pregnancy test;
●urine pregnancy test;
●ultrasound scan;
●embryo vitrification for future frozen embryo transfer cycles on the couple’s demand and is charged as an extra fee.