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If your diagnosis is unexplained infertility, it can often be difficult to decide as to what your next action step should be. This is because there are multiple options, and patients often have a hard time choosing which one is right for them.Often the advise you will get from a gynecologist will be completely different from that which you get from an infertility specialist , and this makes a bad situation even worse because patients...

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Everyone knows that IVF success rates drop as a woman becomes older. This is why many IVF clinic refuse to treat older women. Treating older women reduces the overall success rates of the clinic; and because it's become so important to rank high in the IVF success rate league tables (after all, IVF is a competitive business !) most IVF clinics do not want to jeopardize their statistics. They will either refuse to treat these...

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It's amazingly easy to fool infertile couples - especially those who aredesperate , and are clutching at straws. An excellent example is what some IVF clinics in India who offer surrogacy do. Even though these clinics know that there is no legal method of allowing the couple to take the baby after birth with them out of India ( because Indian law only recognises the birth mother, whose name must go on the child's birth...

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I just received an email from a very confused patient.   I went to two doctors, one is a fertility expert, the other is a gynec and an obstetrician. both have equivalent amount of experience after them, but my question is, when i went to the fertility expert so many problems cropped up, they said u could have a compromised reserve of ovaries, etc.. and fibroids too. but my visit to my family gynec and...

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All this may be TMI, but if you need to talk to your GYN, or help your DH make sense of what your RE is saying, this is a useful crib sheet !This is from the book How to Have a Baby: Overcoming Infertilityby Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, MD and Dr. Anjali Malpani, MD.Abortion: the medical term for miscarriage. The various types include:* Complete abortion: A miscarriage in which all of the products of conception have...

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There are many articles which describe how India is becoming the "surrogacy capital " of the world. This is why we get requests from many couples for surrogacy treatment. This is technically easy treatment for an IVF clinic to offer - and is extremely profitable as well ! So why don't we offer it in our clinic ?The reason is simple- because we think it's not legal.Let me explain.Doing surrogacy is perfectly legal. Since surrogacy...

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We have created some games for infertile couples, to help them cope better with their stress. Check these out at www.drmalpani.com - feedback would be welcome !  

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1.    I want to become a father – please help me ! • I have been treated for testicular cancer in 2003 and one of my testicles is removed with a surgery. Before and after the surgery I have undergone 4 cycles each of chemotherapy. Every 6 months I get the blood tests done and everything seems to be normal for me. Last year April I have undergone testicular biopsy and it resulted in azoospermia....

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A Whole Lot of Infertility Blogging--Brought to You Sorted and Filed: "This list brings together anyone in the infertility/pregnancy loss/assisted conception/adoption/pregnant or parenting after infertility or loss community. From those who were shocked by their diagnosis to those who are utilizing assisted conception because they are single parents by choice. Gay or straight, male or female, every race and religion--all are welcome here. From the newly diagnosed to the oldest vets to those who finished...

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IVF Presentation on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/malpani/ivf-what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-ivf-presentation?type=powerpoint    

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