Are Fertility Treatments a Guarantee for a Pregnancy?
Fertility treatments do not guarantee a pregnancy, but they can significantly increase the chances of achieving it. The success of these treatments depends on several factors: the patients´ age, the cause of infertility, the quality of the gametes, lifestyle, and the technique used.
How do these factors affect the success of fertility treatments?
- Age: A woman's age is one of the most critical factors affecting the success of fertility treatments, as it negatively impacts both the quantity and quality of eggs. A man’s age can also decrease semen quality.
- Gamete quality: The quality of eggs and sperm is a key factor in increasing the chances of achieving pregnancy. In fact, in many cases, resorting to gamete donation is one of the most common alternatives in fertility treatments.
- Medical factors: Certain medical factors, such as endometriosis and low ovarian reserve, can negatively affect the success of fertility treatments.
- Lifestyle: Alcohol and tobacco consumption, obesity, and stress reduce the chances of pregnancy, both in natural conception as in fertility treatments.
- Technique used: There is a wide range of assisted reproduction techniques and treatments, and choosing the one that best suits your case is key to increasing success rates. For this, we recommend visiting specialized centers where you can receive the most suitable alternatives for your case.
Barcelona IVF is an assisted reproduction center renowned for its excellent results in in vitro fertilization (IVF) and egg donation. We have a high-quality assisted reproduction laboratory that applies the latest technological advances, including Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI), Embryoscope, and blastocyst culture, which we perform in over 95% of all embryo transfers. These techniques place us at the highest level of quality to achieve the best pregnancy rates.
Our data support us:
The IVF pregnancy rate according to the woman’s age is 79,9% in women under 35 years and progressively decreases to 17,5% in women over 42 years. Regarding pregnancy rates obtained with artificial insemination, they range from 20,7% to 23,6%.