Vijaya Fertility Clinic, IVF & Endoscopy Center

Details

Name :

Vijaya Fertility Clinic, IVF & Endoscopy Center

Address  :

Kamadhenu Apartments
Kadavanthra - Kaloor Road

Town  :

Cochin

State  :

Kerala

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

682 020

Phone  :

91 484 2205261

Web URL  :

Vijaya Fertility Clinic IVF  Endoscopy Center
Specialization
  • Cytology
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Paediatrics
  • Urology
Facilities

Speciality Type :

Multi Speciality :

  • Surgical Endoscopic
  • Gynaecology
  • Orthopedic

Other Facilities

  • Pathology
  • X-Ray
  • Ultrasonography

Description

Infertility is defined as failure to conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse Infertility can be due to male factor 40 female factor 40 combination of both male and female factors10 or unexplained infertility In vitro fertilization IVF simply put is the union of the male gamete sperm and female gamete egg in the laboratory outside the body IVF can be broadly classified into 2 distinct types 1 Conventional IVF and 2 Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection ICSI In the Conventional IVF procedure the egg and the sperm are mixed together and incubated Whereas in ICSI a single sperm is injected directly into the egg IVF is carried out in cases of female factor infertility whereas ICSI is the treatment of choice for male factor infertility

This centre is among the first few centres in India to successfully setup and achieve pregnancies using the ICSI technique This centre has till today carried out more than 1000 treatment cyclesof IVF and ICSI with a high success rate of 35 Also more than 2000 Intrauterine insemination cycles have been carried out This centre can proudly boast of having a high take home baby rate of 28 to 30 comparably to any of the best centres in the world Vijaya Fertility IVF and Endoscopy Centre also has an equally active Endoscopy centre and has so far carried out more than 1000 endoscopic procedures

Vijaya Fertility and IVF centre has a modern state of the art laboratory with a team of highly competent doctors and embryologists headed by DrVijayalakshmy and offers complete ART procedures under one roof These include basic male and female evaluation counselling detailed semen analysis IUI IVF ICSI PESA TESAetc The latest state of the art equipment used include laminar air flows to maintain aseptic conditions CO2 incubators stereo zoom microscope and micromanipulator The disposables used for IVF are from USA and high quality culture media is obtained from Sweden


History

The worlds first test tube baby was born in United Kingdom in the year 1978 In India the first documented test tube baby was born in Bombay in 1986 The state of Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country There are more than 2000 gynaecologists in active practice However there was not a single ART centre in Kerala which could treat infertility patients at the level of IVF and ICSI Patients with infertility problems had to undergo treatment either abroad where the cost of treatment was exorbitant or go to IVF centres in other states of the country where the success rate was low It was not until 1996 with the establishment of Vijaya Fertility IVF and Endoscopy Centre in Ernakulam that a world class IVF centre which could cater specifically to patients with infertility came into being

The first fertility centre to successfully implement IVF TEST TUBE BABY and other ART service diagnosing and curing by performing IVFICSIPESA and TESAICSIET in Kerala has been operational since 1996 at Kadavanthra
Chirdren from IVFfor the first time in Kerala were born in 1997 conceived in 1996 from this centre So far morethan 300 live babies from IVF ICSI have been born from this centre and there are several ongoing pregnancies
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