Is Your Weight Lowering Your Pregnancy Rate?
The number of overweight individuals has increased sharply in our country, with statistics showing that 68% of our population is overweight (body mass index is greater than 25) and around 36% of our population is considered obese (body mass index is greater than 30). This is a real and growing problem for many of our patients who are trying to get pregnant. What is BMI?…
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Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, defined as two or more consecutive miscarriages, is a devastating condition that causes grief for many couples. Many couples may experience a pregnancy loss, especially an early loss in the first trimester. This does not carry with it an increased risk of having pregnancy loss in the future. Having two or more miscarriages, however, places a couple at a much higher statistical…
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Satellite office helps new patients in northeast Mississippi Fertility Associates of Memphis has announced the opening of a new satellite office in Tupelo, Miss., offering infertility consultations and new patient visits. Appointments began May 19, 2014. The Tupelo satellite office is located at North Mississippi Medical Center’s Longtown Medical Park, 4381 S. Eason Blvd, Suite 204. Dr. Paul Brezina, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinology and…
Comments Off on Fertility Associates of Memphis Announces New Tupelo LocationFertilization through ICSI
When in vitro fertilization (IVF) was first established in 1978, the fertilization process was accomplished by placing sperm close to an egg and then waiting for fertilization to spontaneously occur. It was noted in these early days of IVF, though, that eggs often had poor fertilization rates with male factor infertility. Today, an assisted reproductive technology called ICSI, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection, has been developed…
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Understanding why people experience recurrent pregnancy loss has proven challenging over the past half century. Throughout this time, many suspects have been identified as possibly causing increased miscarriage rates – but then have been found not to play a meaningful role in this process. One such suspect is natural killer cells. What are Natural Killer Cells? In the mid 1990s, so-called “natural killer cells” or…
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