8 million babies born by IVF according to the study

By Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD July 4, 2018

Louise Brown was the first test-tube baby born in 1978. It's now been 40 years and an international committee watched the progress of badisted reproduction through these years. The report says that more than 8 million babies are born using IVF technology during this time.

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Dr. David Adamson spoke on behalf of the International In his report, the Antiretroviral Therapy Surveillance Committee (ICMART) said, "After the annual collection of IVF data globally, it is estimated that since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, more than 8 million babies have been born from IVF worldwide. The figures were calculated from data obtained in regional registries between 1991 and 2014. They show a sharp increase in the collective use of IVF in the treatment of infertility, revealing that every year about 2 Millions of treatment cycles are performed. and ICSI procedures around half a mil on babies are born.

The European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has collected data from data from the National Register of ART Cycles (Artificial Reproductive Technology) that have been undertaken in Europe since 1997. Reports show that that Spain is the first country in terms of use of ART with a record of 119,875 treatment cycles in 2015. Russia has shown 110,723 cycles, Germany 96,512 cycles and France 93 918 cycles in the same year. ESHRE's records included IVF, ICSI, and egg donation as ART.

This latest report shows that in 2015, 800,000 cycles of treatment were performed, of which 157,449 babies were born. This remains one of the most accurate images of ART status is Europe say experts. The findings of the report will be presented at the 34th annual meeting of the ESHRE in Barcelona this week by Dr. Christian de Geyter, President of ESHRE's European Consortium for IVF Surveillance. According to Dr. de Geyter, this report covers about 80% of all badisted fertility treatments in Europe and is therefore fairly representative.

The report also showed that most ART clinics in Europe favored ICSI over IVF. -a trend (there was a total of 356,351 cases of ICSI versus 131,221 cases of IVF). The report also noted that pregnancy rate procedures had stabilized around 36 percent. It was found that pregnancy rates by embryo transfer were higher with the implantation of five-day embryos compared to three-day embryos. Egg donations showed a high pregnancy rate at around 50 percent, it was found. Twin and multiple pregnancies are a common problem with ARVs. The new report shows that twin pregnancy rates in Europe as a result of antiretroviral therapy dropped to around 14% in 2015. Single embryo transfers have a lower success rate and therefore multiple transfers of HIV. Embryos were preferred. However, with improvements in techniques, single embryo transfers increased from 11% in 1997 to 38% in 2015.

De Geyter said, "Success rates have stabilized, although the oocyte donation and the use of frozen embryos move upward. The biggest upward movement comes from treatments with frozen eggs, which have been revolutionized by the widespread introduction of vitrification. Freezing by vitrification has been relatively more widely used and has been made possible by egg banks. De Geyter

De Geyter added that some European countries were still lagging behind in their availability of antiretroviral treatment and these countries included Denmark, Belgium, Austria, and Italy. A previous study had calculated that the minimum requirement of one million people a year was 1500 cycles of ART. These European countries have shown about 2500 cycles per million and according to De Geyter only a minority of European countries meet the numbers required.