The IVF Centers Prof. Zech set the highest quality standards on themselves with their absolute commitment to excellence in order to help couples who experience difficulties with achieving a pregnancy. This help is provided on the highest possible quality level.
To meet these standards we do not only apply state of the art techniques for blastocyst selection (such as IMSI, PGD, Assisted Hatching, PICSI etc.), but we are getting started by offering optimum care prior to treatment, monitoring the ovarian stimulation and our efforts do not end before the desired baby is born.
To monitor follicle growth during ovarian stimulation in IVF the software ‘SonoAVC’ (Automatic Volume Calculation), developed by General Electrics, is applied together with transvaginal measurement of follicular size in three dimensions (Figure 1).
Recently, at Austria’s biggest IVF congress (OEGRM, Saalfelden, 2009) we hereto presented our latest findings (Murtinger M, Aburumieh A, Rubner P, Eichel V, Zech MH, Zech NH. Change in the standard of monitoring ovarian stimulation from 2D to 3D transvaginal ultrasound plus SonoAVC™. 25th annual convention of the Austrian Society for Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology, October, 8th – 10th, 2009, Saalfelden).
Once again we proved capable to demonstrate, that
- Examination as well as evaluation takes significantly less time
- The results regarding volume and quantity of follicles are by far more precise than those achieved by conventional 2D ultrasound technique
- The results are reproducible and comparable at any time
The most important finding, however, manifests itself in the outcome. For patients monitored by SonoAVC during ovarian stimulation we have up to now achieved the following results:
- Increased number of high-quality oocytes (criteria by L. Veek) achieved at oocyte -pickup
- It was possible to considerably increase fertilization rate (after IVF-fertilization /IVF or ICSI/IMSI) on day 1
- Increase in number of blastocysts on day 5
Figure 1: Monitoring ovarian stimulation in IVF-cycle by transvaginal 3D ultrasound and SonoAVC.
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