The Genetics & IVF Institute Donor Egg IVF Program:

Offering Patients Their Choice of Outstanding Egg Donors

Local, National and International Patients May Begin Treatment Immediately

For more than fifteen years, the Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) has provided patients from around the world with an extremely active, highly successful donor egg IVF program that has achieved one of the largest number of donor egg IVF pregnancies in the world. GIVF understands that patients who use donor egg IVF have one goal in mind: they want to get pregnant. GIVF specializes in giving patients maximum control of their donor egg IVF options and in helping patients to begin the donor egg IVF conception process quickly - often in as little as one month.

Using medical and personal profiles, childhood and adult photos, audio interviews and recommendations from our donor egg IVF team, patients can select their own donor from a list of approximately 100 available, diverse donors. Our pool of donors includes donors with advanced degrees in our "Doctoral Donor" program and other especially accomplished women. Each donor meets the highest medical, genetic and educational screening standards.

At GIVF, all donors are screened by our own donor egg IVF team - never by outside agencies. By screening our own donors, our staff of geneticists, reproductive endocrinologists and nurses gets to know the donors as individuals, not just as profiles on a page. That knowledge helps us to recommend matches for our patients, but in the end, the choice of a donor is always up to the patient.

GIVF's Genetics Experts Enhance Our Donor Egg IVF Program

GIVF's extraordinary expertise in genetics provides donor egg IVF patients with a benefit not available at most other donor egg IVF treatment facilities. Every donor is screened by a board certified geneticist and donor egg IVF patients have the opportunity to meet with one of our certified genetics counselors. The counselor will review the patient's family history, the biological father's family history and the donor's history and answer any questions the patient may have about heredity.

Our donor egg IVF coordinator is available to answer your questions, arrange a telephone or on-site appointment or provide you with a full package of information on our donor egg IVF program. To reach the donor egg IVF coordinator, please call 1-800-552-4363 extension 250.

Donor Egg IVF is Extraordinarily Successful Even for Patients Unable to Conceive Through Regular IVF Treatment

Donor egg IVF therapy at Genetics & IVF Institute is phenomenally successful for the vast majority of women. GIVF accepts donor egg IVF patients up to age 55.

First time success rates for donor egg IVF exceed 60% by the time all embryos formed from just a single average full donor egg IVF cycle are transferred to the recipient's uterus. Only a minority of patients will ever need retrieval of additional eggs from the donor. If two donor egg IVF cycles are completed with all embryos replaced, about 80% of all patients will have the success they so much desire. Compared to the much more limited chance of success, often 10% or less, for most couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with their own eggs under circumstances of relatively advanced reproductive age or impending ovarian failure, donor egg IVF is a much better option.

Donor egg IVF is a very easy treatment to undergo, since it is far simpler to do a recipient embryo transfer cycle than a typical full IVF or ICSI cycle using a woman's own eggs. Donor egg IVF cycles normally include a match of one donor to one recipient (sole-match) or sometimes one donor to two recipients (split-match). Some donor egg IVF recipients use known donors who are usually friends or family members.

The combination of outstanding effectiveness, when donor egg IVF treatment is delivered using high quality donors by the highly experienced GIVF team, and the comparative simplicity and comfort of treatment ensures that the donor egg IVF experience is very different for most patients from previous frustrations with IVF or ICSI using their own eggs.

We are fully aware that in choosing an egg donor, you are not merely aiming to achieve a pregnancy, but also making choices about the genetic elements of your future child. When you select the Genetics & IVF donor egg IVF program, you can be assured that:

• Our donors are rigorously screened by GIVF -- an organization with nearly 20 years of experience in genetic diagnosis and treatment and an entire clinical genetics division at its disposal. Donors of the highest personal and educational standards are the only ones eligible to enter our screening processes.

• GIVF's certified genetics counselors are available to meet with you, review your family history and the donor's history and answer any questions you may have about heredity.

• Maximal and extensive information is provided on all donors, and you - not the program - make all the final decisions on the donor to be used for your family. Genetics & IVF's top professionals will assist you in making the right choice of donor for your family, but the choice is always yours.

• Services will be provided promptly and conveniently. For many patients, the time from an initial contact with Genetics & IVF to initiation of their donor egg IVF cycle can be a little as one month or less. Patients from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, and many other locations discover that they need be in the Washington, D.C. area for only 1-2 days in most cases for a full donor egg IVF treatment cycle.

• Intake consultations may be performed at our facilities near Washington, D.C. (Fairfax) or by telephone. Donor selection may also be accomplished in person at Fairfax or by donor selection material to you.

• Our vast experience assures outstanding rates of success for donor cycles, including both fresh and subsequent frozen embryo cycles (if pregnancy is not immediately achieved).

• Confidentiality is absolutely rigorous and never violated under any circumstances.

• Donor egg IVF services may be combined where appropriate with other specialized or unique Genetics & IVF programs like MicroSort for gender selection or to avoid genetic disease or the Pregnancy Guarantee Program donor egg IVF treatment plan. (For more information about MicroSort, please read the MicroSort section of our Website.)

Choosing an egg donor program is a decision with life-long implications. That is why so many sophisticated and informed patients place their confidence in the Genetics & IVF Institute's world-famous donor egg IVF program.

Patients come to our Institute from around the world for these special treatments, and we are experienced in minimizing inconveniences and time away from home for patients from other U.S. locations and from abroad.

GIVF eliminates delays and administrative barriers so that patients can proceed to treatment very quickly. Patients need not attend seminars before entering our program and in many cases they can begin a treatment cycle within weeks, not months. We are generally able to meet the needs of the most discriminating patients immediately, and are often able to provide appropriate donors in highly complex and special situations.

Please call 1-800-552-4363 or e-mail givf@GIVF.com to begin to experience the difference that Genetics & IVF Institute's donor egg IVF program can make in the life of you and your future child.

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