Ground Breaking EmbryoScope Technology Helps Patients Every Day at Shady Grove Fertility
Chesterbrook, PA (PRWEB) June 30, 2014 -- Since 2013, every patient at the Shady Grove Fertility facilities in Pennsylvania have had their embryos examined in a new way, monitored continuously with the EmbryoScope, the only one in Pennsylvania. With daily analysis of embryos necessary for choosing the best embryos for IVF treatment, the EmbryoScope allows the embryologist and physician to view proper embryo development to help increase success for all patients.
“The EmbryoScope is a unique incubator that provides the appropriate environmental and nutritional conditions for embryo development while taking pictures of the embryo every five minutes. The images are put together into a mini-movie and characterize the time frame in which embryo development occurs. Furthermore, sensitive embryos are not exposed to the temperature changes that occur when embryos are removed from the incubator to be graded using a traditional morphological techniques,” says Isaac E. Sasson, M.D., Ph.D. of Shady Grove Fertility in Chesterbrook, PA.
For patients like Toni and Ryan Carlson, who came to Shady Grove Fertility in Chesterbrook in 2013, they had never heard of the EmbryoScope or had any idea that the technology had aided Dr. Sasson to select the embryo with the best potential for a successful pregnancy. Talking to CBS 3’s Stephanie Stahl, Ryan said about his joy about his wife’s pregnancy, “it’s a combination of amazement and relief.” In January of this year, the Carlson’s welcomed their baby boy Linc Isaac, named after Dr. Sasson.
The ultimate goal at Shady Grove Fertility is not to produce twins or triplets. With the EmbryoScope there is greater potential to identify one stable embryo to implant and result in one beautiful healthy baby.
View more of Toni and Ryan’s story and see the Embryo Scope on CBS 3 here: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/07/22/health-new-technology-helps-local-couples-get-pregnant/
Learn more about the Embryo Scope and how it is helping patients at Shady Grove Fertility Pennsylvania: http://blog.shadygrovefertility.com/2014/06/11/embryoscope-can-it-really-help-me-conceive/
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About Shady Grove Fertility Pennsylvania: Shady Grove Fertility, America's largest and most progressive fertility center, has four offices in Pennsylvania located in Reading, Harrisburg, BalaCynwyd, and a full-service, state of the art center and laboratory in the Philadelphia region at Chesterbrook. Comprehensive services at Chesterbrook include IUI, IVF, Donor Egg, Andrology services, as well as the resources to comprehensively address patients' needs: medical, emotional, and financial. Our caring and compassionate staff throughout Pennsylvania includes four board certified reproductive endocrinologists, exceptional medical support team and experienced embryology laboratory staff.
Courtney Cohen, Shady Grove Fertility, http://www.shadygrovefertility.com, +1 (202) 997-4515, [email protected]
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