Abstract

A BRIEF REVIEW ON IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF): AN ADVANCED AND MIRACULOUS GATEWAY FOR INFERTILITY TREATMENTS

*Kirti Rani, Saurabh Paliwal

ABSTRACT

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an advanced and miraculous process by which egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body or coined as In-vitro. In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is the advanced clinical treatment for infertility, when previously; other methods of assisted reproductive technology had been failed. The first successful birth of a "test tube baby" named, Louise Brown, was born in 25 July, 1978 in London as a result of natural cycle In-vitro fertilization (IVF). Robert G. Edwards, the physiologist who developed the treatment, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010. This procedure involves monitoring and stimulating woman's ovulatory process to remove ovum or ova from the woman's ovaries and to let the sperms fertilize those eggs in artificial fluid medium in a laboratory. The fertilized eggr zygote is cultured for 2–6 days in an artificial growth medium and then, transferred to the mother's uterus with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy as to have the obvious benefit of boosting the odds of getting pregnant. Especially, in stressful and unhealthy urban life style, In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is very helpful for women with blocked fallopian tubes or for men with a low sperm count lead to conceiving of babies and in turn, their births with successful as well as expecting survival rate which are coined with a colloquial term "test tube babies."

Keywords: IVF, In-vitro fertilization, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), human, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), ovarian hyperstimulation, ova retrieval, infertility.