3 total visits to Dominion Fertility Results in New York Patient Pregnant in her first NCIVF Treatment: “Satellite” NCIVF

Many of my patients come from outside the Washington, DC area seeking treatment using Natural Cycle IVF (NCIVF).  Currently, I am taking care of 3 patients that live in San Francisco, one from Ghana and one from Germany, all desiring NCIVF.

Here is an example of a patient who lives in upstate New York who found us on the internet.  She had 3 total visits to our Arlington office and she is now pregnant following her first treatment using NCIVF.

S.S. is a 24 year old lady who had never conceived after trying for almost 2 years.  She and her husband had an evaluation performed by her local Reproductive Endocrinologist.  Her husband had a severe male factor with 11 million sperm/ml, 20% motility and an abnormal morphology.  Their doctor recommended stimulated IVF but she wished to first try NCIVF and avoid the use of fertility drugs and the costs, which were simply prohibitive for them. 

They presented to me for a consultation on September 1, 2011 and she decided to give NCIVF a try.  Her doctor in New York monitored her natural cycle with 6 total sonograms and blood hormone measurements in a satellite arrangement sending us her results, which we used to determine the best time to collect her egg.  Her egg was retrieved on October 12 and I transferred one blastocyst embryo 5 days later.  On November 15, we received good news from her New York physician that she had an early intrauterine pregnancy observed on ultrasonography.  In total, she had only 3 visits to our Arlington, Virginia office, one for her initial consultation and one for her egg retrieval and embryo transfer. She used no fertility drugs and her total cost for the procedure was $4,400.   

Today, I spoke with a patient who lives in San Francisco performing a telephone consultation with her.  She is known to have poor ovarian reserve and recently no egg was retrieved at her local infertility clinic who performed stimulated IVF on her.  She had a day 3 serum FSH level of 20 but she has regular menstrual cycles.  We have found NCIVF to be a good option for patients with poor ovarian reserve since most will only produce one or few eggs with stimulated IVF.   Thus, we will try a satellite NCIVF treatment with her local IVF doctors in order to minimize her travel.  We hope that she too will be as successful. 

We have successfully performed many NCIVF procedures on patients throughout the United States using a “satellite” arrangement.  This allows our patients to minimize their time away from home without sacrificing their chances for a successful outcome.  This January, 2012, we will begin our 6^th year of performing NCIVF and we continue to do so with much enthusiasm.   Dr. D