interesting case yesterday!
the couple were married since the last 10 years and the female partner had to undergo a hysterectomy dues to Multiple big fibroids which were not regressing with medication or with Minimally invasive surgery.
the male partner is azoospermic with a low FSH reading so we put him on Injection HCG 5000 units/week for 12 weeks.
the Egg and sperm extraction for both partners was done yesterday.
the sperm extraction was done by Testicular biopsy which is a minor surgery to remove a piece of tissue from the testicles...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
German Dominance in Europe!!
i am a big time soccer fan as would have been evident from my earlier post!
i have been up watching the Champions league SF's the last two nights,the games start a little past midnight so i havent been getting decent sleep the last couple of days.
what games they have been though! Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have anhilated the Spanish teams FC Barcelona and Real Madrid by scores of 4-0 and 4-1 respectively.
i...
this is my personal response to the scores of negative stories put forward by biased and paid media against surrogacy in INDIA.
From the developments in the last few days it is amply clear that a lot of news articles and stories have been biased and carried forward with an Agenda to discredit the Indian Doctors,Surrogate mothers and the entire surrogacy industry in INDIA.
certain tabloids such as the Daily mail and news channels like the CBS are deliberately carrying paid stories to discredit the good work that has been done INDIAN medical...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Medical visas and not tourist visas are to be issued to foreign nationals who
are expecting or have had a child through a surrogate mother in India. These
will be issued only after furnishing the certificates from respective surrogacy
clinics, the Union Health Ministry said in a press statement on Tuesday,Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury was
quoted in the statement, "There is no surrogacy law in the country."
"The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued two notifications... The Ministry of
External Affairs...
Playing ping-pong with the chinese!!
according to recent reports in the media and confirmed by
the indian government a chinese border guards platoon of about 40 soldiers has
pitched tents 10 kms(yes that is right 10 kms)inside the indian territory in
ladakh in the western sector.
apparently the last time they did this was in 1986 in
Arunachal pradesh and called it south tibet and they finally left on their own
accord a full 9 years later in 1995.
according to the Indian side the disputed border with china
runs a full 4056 kms but the...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
why rahul Gandhi should not be PM!!
at a recent event while speaking to the Captain of the Indian Industries Rahul gandhi Referred to india as a beehive!! yes that is correct -A beehive!!
earlier when compared to the chineese Dragon,India was often referred to as the Elephant,which is still an Apt Anology,but a Beehive??is the Guy on weed or something?
everyone knows that the beehive has workers who slog,drones who do not work but have the capacity to fertilise and reproduce and the queen bee who rules the Roost!!now keeping in...
here's a letter of Appreciation from Ivonette and Pedro from Brasil and their pics!their Daughter Estela was concieved and born at the Kiran infertility centre's Surrogacy program.
Ivonete Pedroso
Alguns não sabem: Por causa de uma cardiopatia causada por febre reumática na minha infância, sou proibida pelos médicos de ficar gravida. Uma gestação seria de altíssimo risco. Apesar de saber desde os 19 anos que não poderia ficar grávida, a vontade...
Monday, 15 April 2013
Phew Manic Monday is upon us!!
it was a very relaxing weekend with a much needed break from work on saturday and sunday.
monday morning started off on a bit of a low with only 4 eggs retrieved.this can happen sometimes especially if the female partner has history of infertility and is on the wrong side of thirty or even in her forties as Estrogen levels come down as a woman approaches menopause.
well the quandry is whether to perform IVF or ICSI???
i would prefer to do IVF because the sperm count and motility both look good under the microscope...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
babies day out....of the Womb!!
today we had 2 births scheduled,both caesarian sections.
twin boys born to orran Allan and Dave Booher from NYC,USA and a baby girl for Ivonette and Pedro from Brasil.
orran and Dave are here in India Already and were present for the birth of their boys
Ivonette and Pedro will be arriving on saturday morning because the Indian Consulate gave them their medical visas a day later.
above baby girl of Ivonette...
Sir Robert Edwards, the British professor who has been called "the father of IVF," died yesterday at age 87. Edwards developed in vitro fertilization with another doctor Patrick Steptoe, and in 1978, the first "test tube baby" was born. When they first developed IVF, Edwards and his partner, the late Dr. Patrick Steptoe, were accused of playing God and this brought them into direct conflict with the catholic church and even own colleagues!the...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Hey everyone,
it's midweek already and we are almost in the middle of April.time seems to be just whizzing past this year.well when one is busy this always seems to be the case.
today we had a total of 15 embryo transfers all for surrogacy cases in 3 hours,that is the maximum i have done in a day.seems a lot considering that most clinics do those many transfers in a month.
we are a very busy clinic and sometimes i feel that we maybe too...
Monday, 8 April 2013
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Monday morning has started off great!
4 oocyte retrievals and a couple of embryo transfers and a very pleasant surprise which i shall come to later!!
the embryos were transferred into two surrogate mothers,one was for an INDIAN NRI couple and the other was for a candian couple.
a lot of folks still dont believe that it is possible to make an embryo which consequently results in the birth of a baby outside the womb in a petri dish,so i...
Saturday, 6 April 2013
5 a side football non stop for three hours,3 times a week is great!! i play tuesday,thursday and saturday from 8 pm till 11 pm but it does leave your lower body all sore the next day!! so i got up in the morning and finished half a can of relispray and headed to work!!
egg retrievals have to be done at a precise time(36 hours after HCG) otherwise you risk premature rupture of the follicles in vivo and no eggs can be retrieved hence being late...
why i think Sanjay Dutt Should not be pardoned?
"winning takes care of everything"-this is the tagline that Nike is using now for Ads featuring Golf Legend Tiger woods after he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and regained #1 spot in Golf!
well i think Not!!! winning does not take care of everything,or Does it??maybe in todays Society it does??
why am i talking about Tiger woods when i meant to Talk about Sanjay Dutt?one can compare their lives,well maybe not completely but their lives have had similar paths in one respect that both were down...
Friday, 5 April 2013
TGIF-thank god Its Friday.
friday morning started with 3 embryo transfers,one was a routine IVF and the other into two Gestational carriers/Surrogate mothers.
the lady who underwent the ivf was 42 years and had undergone several ivf cycles in the USA(4 previous ivf cycles).
she has blocked bi lateral fallopian tubes so the only way she can get pregnant is through ivf,however she has a peculiar problem in the fact that her External cervical...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
how i became and Embryologist!!
i always wanted to be a general surgeon since i got into medical school but i was not the most hardworking student.i always scored average in my exams but i got a decent 60% in my final year and i was content with the marks i scored but not My father! My old Man is like an old fashioned military dictator always demanding perfection,myself on the other hand was content being an average joe!!
after i passed my final...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Midweek blues!!
no cases today apart from a day 5 transfer or what we embryologists call a Blastocyst transfer
The blastocyst consists of two primary cell types:
the inner cell mass which is th source of embryonic stem cells.
the trophoblast a layer of cells surrounding the inner cell mass and the blastocyst cavity known as the blastocele which later combines with the maternal endometrium to form the placenta.
The blastocyst develops from...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Yesterday was a major victory for Indian Drug Manufacturers like CIPLA and NATCO!! the supreme court of INDIA in a landmark judgement rejected Swiss pharma giant NOVARTIS AG's plea to preserve its patent over cancer drug GLIVEC which is a life saving drug for CML(chronic Myeloid Leukemia).before GLIVEC there was no cure for CML but with the advent of Glivec the survival rate is 95%.
India has an estimated 3 lakh CML patients,Glivec which is sold by Novartis for about 1.2 lakh INR/month (2200us$ APPROX) whereas Indian manufacturers sell the same...
Monday, 1 April 2013
Back after a nice weekend,hope all of you had a fun Easter!!
i was in Bangalore over the weekend for a the SASSM(south asian society for sexual medicine) conference.it was held at the Indian Institute of Science,it has a lovely campus i must say.i was very impressed by the infrastructure over there.
the conference in itself was highly informative and was a good platform to meet several experts from all over the world in a field that is...
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