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IVF treatment or test-tube fertilisation is, like insemination, an artificial fertilisation. Vitanova is the first mid-wife-owned fertility clinic in Denmark to offer IVF treatment as well. Our doctor, Helle Meinertz, is responsible for IVF treatment at the clinic.
Do you want a consultation with us about IVF treatment? Please fill out the form on the left or phone us.
Specialists in IVF treatment
IVF treatment is our speciality. For legal reasons, we cannot offer IVF treatment to women over 45. There is no age limit for men. Nor can we offer IVF treatment with open donor sperm, because the law only allows IVF treatment with anonymous donor sperm.
About IVF treatment
Depending on the reason for infertility, we will be able to offer you one of the following treatments:
• IVF, in vitro fertilisation, which is fertilisation that takes place outside the body, also known as test-tube fertilisation
• ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, where the sperm cell is injected direct into the egg, is used with sperm with low motility
• TESA testicular sperm aspiration, where sperm cells are removed from the testicle
Before you can have IVF treatment and get started, you must have a consultation with us so that we can find the right treatment for you.
On this page, you can find out about the examinations that need to be made before you can start treatment. If you already know the reason for your infertility or have been for treatment somewhere else, it would be a great help if you can give us a copy of your medical record, any diagrams showing egg development, stimulation data and sperm analysis.
If no sperm analysis has been made, we can do it for you. We would very much like to have the forms and test results before you come for the first consultation, so we are better able to understand your situation.
If you are a couple, you must both come to the first consultation. If you are to use donor sperm, we will agree during the consultation on your wishes for the donor, e.g. eye colour, hair colour, and height. With IVF treatment it is not legal to use sperm from an open donor.
IVF treatment, the first consultation and examinations
Before you can start IVF treatment, you must have a consultation where we fully inform you about the procedure. We also want to know what you want and expect of us. We make a plan for the treatment, so you know exactly how the treatment will proceed. The consultation lasts about an hour, and normally takes places at the clinic.
If you have already gone through the necessary examinations before you come to the consultation, and everything is in order, you can start IVF treatment in your next cycle.
Examinations before the woman can start IVF treatment
To get the best possible results from IVF treatment, it is important that all examinations are made. We need blood test results for HIV and hepatitis, and if you are a couple and the man is to provide the sperm, he also needs to be tested for HIV and hepatitis as well as have a sperm quality examination.
If you are going to us donor sperm, the partner does not need to take the tests. During the consultation with the doctor – before IVF treatment – we do an ultrasound scan of the woman. This is to check that the Fallopian tubes, ovaries and uterus are normally positioned in the abdomen. The scan cannot show whether there is passage in the Fallopian tubes.
As supplementary examinations, we may suggest that the woman should have blood tests made that will show her hormone status. We may also recommend an AMH (Anti-Müllerian Hormone) test that shows how big the woman’s egg reserve is. We may also recommend that she has an HSE (water scan of the Fallopian tubes), which will show whether there is passage in the Fallopian tubes. All these examinations can be done at Vitanova.
If you have had IVF treatment or examinations elsewhere, we will probably not need to repeat them. We start with an ultrasound scan to get an impression of whether everything (uterus and ovaries) looks normal.
Questions about IVF treatment?
Phone us on tel. 33 33 71 01 or contact us for further information and counselling about IVF treatment.