Reproductive Medicine
Reproductive medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with identification of male and female subfertility including the usage of ART like IVF and ICSI. The faculty helps the couples for improving or maintaining reproductive health and allowing people to have children at a time of their choice. The field works in concurrence with reproductive endocrinology and subfertility, sexual medicine and andrology. The Treatment of subfertility involves complete mapping of fertility process of a couple which helps doctor and the couple to determine the right cause of fertility. With right fertility treatment almost 90% patients are able to have a baby.
Reproductive Medicine @ CRAFT
We have an integrated and committed team to bring academic excellence and best clinical practise in reproductive medicine. We have cutting edge technology and clinical expertise in patient oriented practice, with individualized approach and customized treatment protocol for each patients rather than blanket treatment for all. With us, you can experience a personal care, compassionate support and professional treatment to guide you through one of life’s biggest journeys. CRAFT hospital is committed to provide quality care and attention to patients regardless of language, ethnicity or location. Our goal is to help the couples grow their own gametes without any donor assistance which includes donor eggs, sperms or donor embryos.
Our services cover entire services under reproductive medicine including intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization IVF-ICSI.
- Beginning with a complete fertility analysis for evaluation of a couple and individualized treatment protocols helps our patient to achieve their dreams at the earliest. These treatments are complimented with a world class IVF-ICSI lab of clinical excellence.
- The customized form of hormone treatment practiced at CRAFT aid the creation of the highest quality eggs. This customised type of treatment completely eliminates the chance of complication of Ovarian Hyper stimulation syndrome. We have a Zero incidence of OHSS till date at CRAFT.
- We practice single or double embryo transfer only to avoids complications of multiple pregnancies and guarantees health of both the mother and the baby.
- At CRAFT we strictly follow a Non – Donor policy. We often have cases with patients having challenges like very poor AMH values as low as 0.01 succeed to have their own baby by a customised treatment protocol at our centre. We make use of mild stimulation techniques and special additives methodology to help these patients have their own babies than prompting them for donor IVF. We ensure every patient gets personalised care and attention that is crucial for overcoming their problem rather than having a generalized form of treatment.
- Our specialized and individualized stimulation program helped in attaining successful pregnancies for more than 150 couples who had failed donor IVF treatment from other centre across many countries.
Our effective treatment methodology helped more than 200 couples having their own babies, who were strongly recommended for donor IVF earlier by other centres. The reproductive Medicine department is led by Dr. Col. Sandeep Karunakaran Director & Sr. Consultant, MBBS MS (Obstetrics and Gynecology) PGDHM PGDMLE MBM. He is also a Senior ART consultant and a renowned IVF specialist in the country. Dr. Col. Sandeep Karunakaran is also the Course Coordinator for the Andrology Fellowship program at CRAFT Academy, the country’s leading institute for Fellowship programs in various branches of Fertility Management.
Poor Response (POR)
Ovarian rejuvenation techniques like Ovarian stem cell therapy, Intra ovarian BAPC are novel methods, which we practice to yield more oocytes in those women with Diminished Ovarian Reserve and enable them fulfill the dream of self parentage rather than donor eggs.
In vitro maturation of oocytes in specialized culture system ( IVM) , has been found beneficial in couples with recurrent failures in conventional IVF and is one among the unique protocols which we adopt to help you foster a child from your own gamete .
Recurrent Implantation Failure (RIF)
RIF or the failure to achieve pregnancy with repeated transfer of good quality embryos is attributed to either uterine or embryo factors. We use advanced techniques for evaluating gamete and embryo quality. Couples are evaluated with PGS with next generation sequencing (NGS) to rule out the possibility of genetic abnormalities (N) and to obtain DNA Fragmentation Index for ascertaining sperm quality. 3D and 4D USG are performed under expert sonologist to rule out uterine pathologies if any, We have an experienced senior laparoscopic surgeon, who has performed over 20,000 laparoscopic surgeries for the diagnosis and treatment of various uterine and adnexal disorders. Besides, we also house a panel of experienced fertility specialists, senior embryologist, reproductive surgeon and counsellor who adopt a multidisciplinary approach in addressing the different issues of our patients.
Fertility Preservation
Increased incidence of cancer among youngsters and impact of cancer treatment on reproductive system is major concern in today’s world. With the latest advancements in cancer therapy, this deadly disease can be cured by a combination treatment involving surgery and/or chemotherapy. However, these treatment strategies can be gonadotoxic, with a high risk of premature ovarian failure and testicular failure leading to problems of infertility in both men and women.
Early detection of cancers and pre-treatment fertility preservation can help these couples achieve the dream of having a baby after such treatments .
CRAFT offers fertility preservation options for post pubertal male (sperm cryopreservation) and post menarche female (oocyte cryopreservation, embryo cryopreservation and ovarian tissue preservation), thus expanding the range of possibilities for parenthood in future.
Unexplained infertility (UIF)
UIF is condition of patients were all standard investigations such as ovulation, total patency and semen analysis are found to be normal. For an infertile couple, a UIF diagnosis can be very frustrating. This often leads them to come to a conclusion that, there are no treatment exist for their problems, since there is no explanation for the cause of infertility
We do advanced investigation to understand the possibility of biological factors influencing the fertility by assessing sperm and oocyte as well as endometrial deficiencies which enables us to effectively diagnose the exact causes for infertility in UIF cases.
