A brain child of Prof. B.N. Chakravarty was built in 1983 at Salt Lake (Old Building) to complete the unfinished job of Late Dr. Subhas Mukherjee who had pioneered the delivery of “First Test tube Baby” in India and 2nd in the world after his unfortunate demise.
Prof. B.N. Chakravarty trained a team of dedicated young doctors who with their sincerity, devotion, and knowledge helped the infertile couples at IRM to fulfill their dreams under the guidance of Sir who delivered 3rd Test tube Baby in November 1986.This was the most important milestone in Prof. B N Chakravarty’s clinical career.
Lack of adequate space at the old building due to gradual increase in number of infertile couplies desperate to achieve pregnancy, Sir built a second building of IRM at Salt Lake popularly known as new IRM building. About 3000 to 3500 new patients are turned up every year and 20 to 30 Doctors are enrolled for training program each year from all over the country. Till date about 6000 babies were born from IVF/ICSI.
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By different drugs more than one follicle are recruited in the ovaries to increase the chances of conception
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It is a proses by which gametes from both the partners are collected and fertilized outside the body within the laboratory in an atmosphere closely resemble to the mother’s womb, and the resultant embryos are transferred into the uterine cavity.
After ovulation, confirmed by USG post wash motile sperm solution (> 3 mill / ml), prepared from husband’s semen is to be introduced into the uterine cavity by a catheter.
By different drugs more than one follicle are recruited in the ovaries to increase the chances of conception
It represents injection of one alive sperm into the cytoplasm of a metaphase II oocyte in case of severe male factor infertility or azoospermia.
Oocyte freezing is done usually for donor oocyte bank and when the male gametes are not available for insemination on the day of ovum pick-up. Embryo freezing are done usually for frozen embryo transfer and for surplus embryos following embryo transfer in fresh IVF cycle.
Sperm freezing is done when male partners are not available on the day of insemination or unable to produce semen on demand. In case of male partners before chemotherapy or radiotherapy for fertility preservation sperms are preserved for future use.
In case of azoospermia when sperms are not available in the ejaculate the sperms are to be retrieved from testis or epididymis by percutaneous epididymal sperm aspirations (PESA) or testicular sperm aspiration (TESA) or testicular sperm extraction (TESE). Sometimes sperms are to be retrieved by open biopsy or by microsurgery.
In case of women having premature ovarian failure, surgical removal of ovaries or age related decline in fertility of women less than 50 years, donated oocytes from eligible women has to be used for conception.
Women who are unable to bare their own child due to absence or pathology of the uterus can hire another women’s womb to carry their own conceptus as per ART BILL June 2022.
It is usually done in case of women having repeated unsatisfactory endometrium in IVF cycles to promote implantation. Isolation of mononuclear cells from peripheral blood of the women followed by infusion into her uterine cavity.
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