Our fertility sub-specialists, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, have undergone the most extensive advanced training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility and have attained their subspecialty board certifications. There are approximately 500 practicing subspecialty board certified reproductive endocrinologists and infertility specialists in the United States. Our region is very fortunate to have 3 of them in Charlottesville at Virginia Fertility & IVF.
Virginia Fertility & IVF offers all levels of care from the simplest to the most complex. Our fertility specialists begin with a 1-hour complete evaluation of both partners including a pelvic ultrasound performed by our physician, not an ultrasound technician. The results of these fertility tests will help the physician decide which treatment is most appropriate for each individual couple. Many factors are considered in this decision including personal circumstances, cost, and the likelihood of pregnancy and delivery. You and your doctor will discuss the best options to decide which one you prefer.
There are a variety of infertility treatments available today to help couples have children. Most couples who come to see us will have a successful outcome (the baby they desire). Determining the most effective treatment sometimes takes a number of months as we see how couples respond to a chosen treatment and individualizing care.
We are a comprehensive fertility center and it is our goal to help each couple conceive as quickly as possible through the most straight-forward and cost effective treatments. The news media often presents stories on the high technology of IVF and associated procedures. Very rarely, if ever, will you see a story about the millions of women who became pregnant with simple oral medications such as Clomid, fertility surgeries, or other common treatments. IVF enables over a hundred thousand couples each year, including those with severe male factor infertility, to have healthy genetically related children but over a million U.S. couples per year conceive with much simpler treatments.
Virginia Fertility & IVF offers all treatments for infertility from simple and cheap oral medications such as letrozole and Clomid, to more complicated and expensive injectable medications such as Gonal-F, Follistim, or Menopur combined with IUI, to IVF and all of the potential associated micromanipulation procedures such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), and other procedures such as egg banking for future fertility. We also are specialists in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic, minimally invasive surgery to assist conception.
Some conditions causing infertility often have a surgical solution. For example, if the fallopian tubes are blocked, as shown in the HSG (a hysterosalpingogram is a pelvic x-ray), laparoscopic surgery is the treatment of choice. Surgery on the reproductive organs is extremely delicate and in most cases should only be attempted by a trained fertility surgeon. During their training, our fertility specialists conducted hundreds of supervised surgeries to hone their surgical skills. Our fertility specialists teach other physicians laparoscopic surgery techniques at the University of Virginia Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program.
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