Friday, April 27, 2012

The bane of overtesting after a failed IVF cycle

I just saw a patient who had failed an IVF cycle. She was full of questions and was very confused because her doctor could not provide her with satisfactory answers. Her doctor had transferred two good quality blastocysts but these had failed to implant , and she wanted to know why. At the time of the transfer, the doctor was extremely optimistic and gung-ho – and had virtually promised her that she was going to get pregnant in this cycle, because everything was going so well ! When the cycle failed, the patient was distraught, and confronted her doctor, asking her for an explanation as to the failure.

Read more at http://www.drmalpani.com/bane-of-overtesting-after-a-failed-IVF-cycle.htm

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