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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Testing. Pioneer in PGD, Embryo Genetic Testing, Gender Selection and IVF. Call now 213-640-2555 |
- Have baby of your dream! - PGD Fertility clinic is focused on the combination of reproductive medicine and genetic testing. Dr. Peyman Saadat is the Medical Director of the fertility clinic. Our primary goal is to help you have a baby of your dream also provide financial and emotional support to everyone interested in parenthood. We understand family balancing is an important factor in life, which can be achieved by this breakthrough technology called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis PGD - with in vitro fertilization - IVF. PGD procedure, or pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, helps couple to select gender of their baby. All couple interested in gender selection would require to go through the IVF protocol: full lab work, hormone treatments, shots, weekly visits to the fertility clinic, ultrasounds to determine follicle development, egg retrieval, fertilization in the lab, growth of the embryos, embryo selection and implantation. However, with PGD, on day three of the embryo development, one single cell is removed from each embryo, and examined. The cell carries the information whether the embryo is a boy or a girl. Then, on the implantation day, only the embryos that are the desired sex are surgically implanted in the mother’s uterus. Whether done for family gender balancing or to identify genetically abnormal embryos it is an important procedures for couples to have healthy family. PGD with IVF helps to detect few basic genetic characteristics in the embryo for any feritlity treatment: Chromosomal aneuploidy - an abnormal number of chromosomes. Single gene defects - specific genetic mutations leading to known diseases. Determine Gender.(male or female) i.e. Gender selection for having a baby of your dream. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) signals the beginning of an end for many genetic diseases. Using PGD we now have the means to remove a single cell from a developing embryo and test it for a genetic abnormality, implanting only healthy embryos. The result will be the significant reduction and possibly the eradication of a genetic disease from affected families. PGD with In vitro Fertilization (IVF) is an important procedure to help achieve Family Balancing i.e. Gender Selection. Gender selection with in vitro fertilization-IVF also, allows couples to balance their family by having control at number of male or female offspring in their family. It also improves likelihood of having healthy baby. For example, couples who have already had several children of only one gender (e.g. all girls), may be interested in having a child of the opposite gender next. If the sole purpose of having another child is to obtain the desired gender, and/or if a couple would consider terminating a pregnancy if the gender of the baby was found to be of the "undesired" type, gender selection of embryos may be a reasonable option for that couple. We will like to work with you and reach the best possible solution for your fertility treatment. We provide comprehensive fertility treatment options to all our patients, including In vitro fertilization-IVF, Preimplantation genetic testing Our Institute was founded in January 2001 by Jaroslav J. Marik, MD, the medical director since 1971 of The Tyler Medical Clinic and is now under Dr. Peyman Saadat, one of the most noted and respected infertility clinics in the nation; and Jerry L. Hall, PhD, director of the Center for Reproductive Research and Testing in Maryland, an institution that has been involved in the research of human and animal husbandry.
We also count with the partnership of the Genetic Resources Medical Group, formerly DNA Dynamics, a Los Angeles-based company providing patients with genetic counseling; the UCLA Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Pathology that has contributed immensely to the development of the technology in our Institute; and the Department of Pathology's specialty laboratory at UCLA that performs the laboratory testing using fluorescence in site hybridization.
Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Genetic Testing 9301 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 208 - Los Angeles - California 90210 Phone: 213-640-2555 - Fax: 310-278-7599 Email: info@preimplantationgenetictesting.com
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