Since 1978, more than 8 million children have been born thanks to the PMA

Forty years after the birth of Louise Brown the first child conceived in test tube the number of children born in the world through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other treatments against infertility exceeded 8 million . The announcing at the 34th Congress of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Eshre) underway in Barcelona was Christian de Geyter Chairman of the Consortium of l & # 39; Observatory of Esf. 19659003] The current figure was calculated using data from national registers from 1991 to 2014 and represents, according to the expert, evidence of a sharp increase in the use of Fiv for infertility treatment: Eshre estimates, on average, more than half a million children are born each year through Medically Assisted Reproduction (Pma ) and in total more than 2 million cycles of treatment

The cycles followed by Eshre include treatments with Fiv (in vitro fertilization), Icsi ] (intracytoplasmic injection) and donation of eggs . The report covers a total of about 800 thousand cycles of treatment performed in 2015 for a total of 157,449 children born and represents the largest and most accurate picture of LDCs in Europe. According to the register, in Europe Spain remains the most active country in badisted reproduction with 119,875 treatment cycles performed in 2015, followed by Russia with 110,723 cycles, Germany with 96,512 and France with 93,918

Among the other results presented at the congress, the rates of pregnancy seem to have stabilized in Europe around from 36% for Fiv and Icsi. In addition, pregnancy rates are higher by transferring embryos grown in the laboratory for five days (ie, in the blastocyst phase) compared to three days. And again: oocyte pregnancy rates continue to grow and are now around 50% . Similarly, the transfer rate of a single embryo continues to increase, from 11% in 1997 to 38% in 2015. To gaining ground, it is also necessary to freeze embryos: ] 15% of all cycles of treatment followed in 2015, the embryos were frozen before transfer to the uterus

Finally, De Geyter pointed out that the availability of badisted procreation treatments remains very fragmentary in Europe: Denmark and Belgium each offer more than 2500 cycles of treatment per million inhabitants, while others (such as Austria and Italy) offer much less. A study, says the expert, calculated that the overall need for advanced treatments for fecundity is about 1500 cycles per million people by year. "Today, only a minority of European countries meet this need," concludes De Geyter.

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