You have decided it is time to grow your family so you start trying to conceive. The months go by but you haven’t gotten pregnant yet. So you think: I can’t get pregnant. What should I do? It is true that some women manage to conceive relatively quickly, but this is not always the case […]
Human reproduction is a very complex process: it involves several stages, all of which need to go as planned, but that sometimes don’t turn out as we had hoped. An example? A couple undergoing assisted reproduction treatment, specifically in Vitro Fertilisation, transfers very good quality embryos to an endometrium which appears to be normal, but they don’t achieve […]
Embryo donation or embryo adoption is one of the assisted reproduction treatments we perform at URE Centro Gutenberg which offers the best chances for achieving a successful pregnancy to the women and couples who opt for this type of treatment. What does embryo donation entail? Embryo donation involves receiving one or more embryos that have […]
We think that the pandemic has been the test humanity needed to stop and think about where we come from and where we want to go as a society. We were getting back on our feet, little by little, with everyone’s effort, but new problems appeared on the horizon that we seemed to have left […]
Pregnancy test after IVF: when is it most reliable? One of the most common doubts our patients at URE Centro Gutenberg have is about the pregnancy test. In assisted reproduction treatment, whether the patient is undergoing artificial insemination or in vitro fertilisation, the question that comes up is: when can the long‑awaited pregnancy test be […]
One of the causes of female infertility is what we call “tubal factor infertility” in medicine. What does it involve? So‑called “tubal factor infertility” is the incorrect functioning of the fallopian tubes due to malformations, lack of permeability or flexibility or the absence of fallopian tubes after having them surgically removed. This poor functioning of the […]
When we talk about primary infertility we are referring to couples who have not been able to conceive after a year of having sexual intercourse without using birth control methods. This period of time, in fact, is shorter for women over 37 years of age ( six months) In this regard, the male factor represents […]
It’s a reality that overweight and obesity are increasingly more common in developed countries. These conditions are also associated with many health issues. Obesity is the result of the interaction of several factors, mainly those of genetic, metabolic, environmental, cultural and socioeconomic origin. How do we measure the degree of obesity in medicine? The most […]
The inability to conceive naturally is a common problem in our society. In fact, recent studies indicate that infertility is currently affecting between 18% and 20% of the world population. But… what is the cause of these issues that are preventing natural conception from occurring? What’s true is that there are many, very different reasons: […]
ICSI, commonly known for its abbreviation in English for Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection, is an assisted reproduction technique that forms part of In Vitro Fertilisation treatment and is used in the majority of fertility clinics. This technique involves introducing one spermatozoid into the cytoplasm of one of the female’s eggs for the purpose of achieving fertilisation, […]
