Mini IVF
Mini IVF uses less drugs and injections, and therefore, dramatically reduces the likelihood of experiencing the side effects of IVF medication. Using a lower dose and less medication also saves you on the cost of IVF treatment.
As North Cyprus IVF, we recommend mini IVF for patients with elevated FSH levels. These patients often do not produce enough eggs to allow Conventional IVF to work efficiently which results in a significant increase in failed and cancelled cycles. Mini IVF does not focus on the egg count, but rather, emphasizes the quality of the few eggs that will be produced after the stimulation cycle, therefore, patients who are in their late 30s or early 40s and those with elevated FSH levels are perfect candidates for mini IVF.
Mini-IVF is designed to recruit only a few (but high quality) eggs, thus avoiding the risks of hyperstimulation, reducing the number of injections and dramatically reducing the cost of medications. In many patients who have very poor quality embryos with regular IVF programs, mini-IVF can potentially improve their embryo quality and result in pregnancy. Mini IVF is not just a way of minimizing hormonal intake during IVF stimulation protocol, but rather a very genious way of increasing egg quality in women who otherwise may not have had success in regular IVF cycles. So in fact, this answers many women's question of "how to increase egg quality?"
Even for poor prognosis cases of older women with low ovarian reserve, there is an advantage to mini-IVF over high dose stimulation. Such patients normally produce very few eggs even when subjected to very high doses of stimulation medication. Mini-IVF is just as likely to yield as many eggs (very few, of course) as giving high doses of gonadotropins. But the egg quality is better and they can in fact expect to have a higher chance of success with better quality of eggs. Even in the worst case scenario, even if there are no eggs left and the cycle does not yield any eggs at all, this is discovered after use of much cheaper medication as opposed to spending a fortune.
North Cyprus IVF has started offering mini-IVF cycles (micro IVF) for older patients with high FSH levels and lowered ovarian reserves. Now we have a way of increasing egg quality in IVF treatment...
