The benefits from PGS depends on your specific clinical profile and personalized probability of IVF success. Meanwhile, the risks of doing PGS mainly pertain to the immediate risk of embryo biopsy and the risk of having inconclusive results. With that said this next article will really have you scratching your head. Doctors say embryos that possess “chromosomal abnormalities can nonetheless produce healthy baby.
Here’s an in-depth article by the Center for Human Reproduction on the heels of the New York Magazine’s story of Abnormal Embryos That Aren’t which shows there’s new hope for women in their 40’s to have a healthy baby through IVF, and the possible inefficiency of PGS.
As the Center for Human Reproduction starts off in their article:
Looking at the cover of the September 18/October 1 issue of New York Magazine (left), the cute baby photo on first impulse suggested yet another, likely, banal baby story. Superimposed on the, indeed, very cute baby picture, large white letters in the title of the lead story, “Tens of thousands of women thought they couldn’t have babies. But what if they could,”followed by the even more intriguing subtitle “The Abnormal Embryos That Aren’t,” suggested, however, that this issue’s lead article addressed a much more substantial subject.
Even though the cover did not reveal what the article was about, that Stephen S. Hall, one of the country’s most prominent and highly regarded medical science writers, was the author, further enhanced the presumed gravitas of the article. Starting on page 34 of the magazine, Hall then presented not only the first discussion ever in the lay media on preimplantation genetic screening (PGS), recently renamed preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A), but a true tour-de-force on the subject. He interviewed literally almost every important figure in the field in the U.S., in Europe, and even in Israel, in order to present a balanced picture of what, likely, has become the single most controversial issue in reproductive medicine. (read more)
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