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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Local fertility doctor scores another first


A Kenyan doctor, Dr Joshua Noreh has discovered a new way of increasing the success rate for pregnancies among couples with infertility problems. The new method has increased pregnancy success rates by up to 50 per cent.

It has also ensured embryos are transferred at the right time, just when the uterus is ready for implantation, significantly reducing failure rates.
With this method, the number of embryos transferred in a single treatment cycle will reduce from three to one, resulting in fewer multiple pregnancies. It also ensures availability of embryos for a couple intending to have more children in future.

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This is good news for couples who have been spending more than Sh700,000 in repeat treatments after initial fertility procedures fail. The new method will cost Sh300,000, with no need for repeat procedures.
The technique is an improved in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure in which the number of days an egg is left to develop into an embryo before being transferred into a woman’s uterus has been increased from two to five.
Presenting his findings to fellow doctors during the East, Central and Southern Africa Association of Obstetrical and Gynaecological Societies forum held in Mombasa, Kenya last week, Dr Joshua Noreh of Nairobi IVF Centre described the development as the best advances in the field in the past three years.

“What we are experiencing in our clinic is something that can improve management of couples with infertility problems, and the practice of IVF in Kenyan clinics currently offering this form of treatment to women and men,” says Dr Noreh.

IVF is a procedure in which eggs are taken from a woman and sperm from a man before they are fertilised in a laboratory. The resulting embryos are then transferred back to her uterus for pregnancy to take place.
The first IVF baby in the world was born in July 1978 in England. Locally, the procedure costs between Sh300,000 and Sh400,000 depending on the severity of infertility.

The technique is usually used on women without eggs or with blocked or damaged Fallopian tube – the pipe through which the egg travels from the ovary to the uterus for implantation to take place – and men with poor sperm quality.

Initially, after retrieving the egg from the woman and fertilising it, the egg was left for two days to develop into an embryo and then transferred to the uterus for normal pregnancy to take place.
The pregnancy rate with this procedure was 26 per cent, meaning women who failed to get pregnant had to spend another Sh250,000 for a repeat procedure.

Such outcomes so disturbed Dr Noreh and his embryologist, Dr Tucs Olegs, that they decided to increase the number of days of embryo development in the test tube to five days.

Although results of the first cases were not significant, they were a great improvement. The real success came last year in subsequent treatment cycles, with pregnancy success rate increasing from 26.1 per cent to 52 per cent and has since remained like that.

“Any improved pregnancy rates like this means many couples will take home babies after the first treatment cycle, avoiding the costs and stress associated with repeat treatment,” says Dr Noreh.
The success is a major development since 2006 when he made history by delivering the first test tube babies locally.

By end of last year, Dr Noreh’s Nairobi IVF Centre had delivered 96 test tube babies. The oldest is now two years and nine months.

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