Midwifery and Womens Health

IUI and IVF

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) and In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) are the two fertility treatments which are used to assist a woman who struggles to conceive. In vitro fertilization is a process involving egg stimulation, retrieval, fertilization, and transfer whereas intrauterine insemination injects sperm into a uterus to reduce the sperm travel time to the egg. IVF treatment is a process that consists of five steps including: pre-cycle diagnostic testing, stimulation of the ovaries for production of several eggs during one cycle, retrieval of the eggs from each ovary, fertilization of eggs in the laboratory through conventional fertilization or ICSI, and then transfer of the resulting embryos into the uterus. IUI treatment involves two main cycles Clomid or Letrozole with IUI and Gonadotropins with IUI.

Related Societies/ Associations: The Association of Professors of Gynaecology and Obstetrics | The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine | The Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynaecology | The American Urogynecologic Society | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists