CRGH has been assisting couples with the desire for a child is one of life's driving forces. CRGH has been assisting couples with specialist advice and treatment for twenty years, obtaining outstanding results which place us as leaders amongst fertility clinics in the UK. In affiliation with University College London Hospitals we provide a wide range of specialist treatment options based on sound academic principles and advanced medical techniques. At CRGH we aim to provide an environment where you feel comfortable, relaxed and supported by our experienced team of staff, and we tailor every detail of your treatment to suit your individual circumstances to give you the very best chance of success. Whatever the difficulty fulfilling one's desire for a child, we may very well be able to provide a treatment option that will enable us to work together towards a solution.
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CRGH News
Pregnancy Rates
2011 is proving to be another hugely successful year for CRGH patients.
Our clinical pregnancy rates per embryo transfer procedures are:
Under 38 years
Over 38 years
IVF
64%
35%
ICSI
67%
29%
Frozen Embryo replacement
49%
37%
Update on clinicians, embryologists and scientists
The CRGH would like to welcome two new fertility specialists – Lisa Webber and Lynne Chapman. Lisa Webber (BA BMBCh PhD MRCOG) is a consultant gynaecologist and specialist in reproductive medicine. Lisa was formally a consultant at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Lynne Chapmam (MBBS, BSc) has been working in the field of obstetrics and gynecology for more than 10 years. Lynne has extensive clinical and research experience in the area of fibroids, endometriosis and minimal access surgery.
Victoria Wigley has joined the embryology team. Victoria got a distinction in her MSc (Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine) that she took at UCL before training as an embryologist. Carleen Heath recently completed her embryo biopsy training, which ensures we have several embryologists trained in cleavage and blastocyst biopsy for PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis).
Joyce Harper has been elected to the executive of the British Fertility Society and also taken over as Chair of the ESHRE Special Interest Group in Reproductive Genetics.
New Advances
The CRGH have been trying out an EmbryoScope that makes time lapse video of the development of the embryo. It is hoped that this technology will aid embryo selection.
We continue to use IMSI to help select sperm for men with very severe male factor infertility. This technique examines sperm under very high magnification.
UCL Centre for PGD are now using array-CGH (comparative genomic hybridization) to examine chromosomes in embryos from patients with chromosome abnormalities or indications for aneuploidy screening.
We are trying out a new way of natural cycle IVF (link to treatment page natural IVF) where three sets of embryos are frozen before any are transferred.
Conferences
Paul Serhal has recently given three important talks: 14th October on Adenomyosis and Infertility at a meeting at the Academy of Medical Sciences in London (Focus on Gynaecology), 21st October on Endometriosis at a patient information day meeting organised by Endometriosis UK at the UCLH Education Centre and in November on Dealing with recurrent miscarriage at the Fertility Show.
Lisa Webber gave a lecture in Cardiff on the long-term consequences of PCOS for Verity (the patient support group) and will be talking at the Annual Rowan Owen Surgical Complications Course at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust on 6th December.
Joyce Harper has been invited to talk on preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in December at the American Society of Haemotologist, and also invited to talk on PGD at an IVF workshop in Chang Mai (Thailand) in January. Joyce will be chairing a debate at the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) meeting in Leeds in January on invasive versus non invasive embryo screening.
Five embryologists will be attending the ACE meeting, all of which will be presenting data and Suze Cawood will also be presenting data at the British Fertility Society meeting, also in Leeds in January. In total the embryologists will be presenting seven abstracts at the ACE/BFS meetings.
Publications
So far this year staff at the CRGH have published 12 papers and several more are submitted.
Courses
At the CRGH we are very interested in teaching other groups our knowledge and in September we ran our first Advances in Clinical Embryology course and our 17th PGD workshop and we will be running similar workshops in March 2012 - Click here to find our more
