Overlake Reproductive Health | Seattle Fertility Clinic

New medical technology and best practices are emerging all the time. Clinicians must spend a significant amount of time to stay current with the latest advancements in their field of medicine. Infertility medicine tends to change more rapidly than most.

At ORH, we are devoted to providing the best and most current fertility treatments to our patients. Important breakthroughs are carefully evaluated and are incorporated into our practice whenever it is reasonable to do so.

We believe in going the extra mile for our patients and are open 365 days a year. You can rest easy knowing that we will be there if your treatment day happens to fall on a weekend or holiday. Our goal is to treat each of our patients individually and to get them pregnant with the least invasive, most effective way possible.

Read more about why you should choose ORH for your fertility care.

RFID Tagging of All Patient Samples (IVF & IUI)

Taking security to the next level

We understand the immense level of trust that patients put in their fertility clinic to safeguard the identity of their most precious samples during reproductive procedures. To that end, we added another layer of security through the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Not only were we the first clinic in the USA to adopt the use of RFID tags in all of our ART (IVF and IUI) procedures, we remain one of only a few clinics in the country with such a system.

RFID tags provide an additional level of oversight by constantly monitoring the identity of the samples throughout the process. The use of this system has provided both our patients and staff with peace of mind.

Complimentary Translation Services

Language shouldn’t be a barrier

Patients from all cultures and languages are welcome at ORH! We provide translators for our patients at no charge^*.

If you require the use of a translator for your visit please give the office a minimum lead time of 2 days so we can make the proper arrangements.

Freeze-All IVF Protocols

Our new standard in IVF treatment

We have adopted a new standard in IVF: Routine day 5-7 Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A), a Freeze-all vitrification protocol, and Single embryo transfer (SET). Adopting these practices into our routine care have resulted in dramatic increases in the success rates at our practice.

The proof is in our numbers. In the last complete reporting year, our implantation rate reached a staggering 86.4% in patients under the age of 35! That means 86.4% of the transfers we performed in 2018 resulted in a pregnancy. Now, not every early pregnancy (implantation) results in a live birth, just as not every retrieval will result in a viable embryo to transfer. Biology is just not that simple.

According to Genesis Genetics and a recent abstract^(1,2), there are only a small number of U.S. clinics that are currently doing this routinely. A recent study reported a 97% increase in live birth rates using this protocol, without SET, vs the older practice of day 3 or day 5 fresh transfers. Although SET was not used throughout this study the chance of pregnancy per embryo transferred was more than double with PGT-A and freeze-all compared with cycles without PGT-A⁽³⁾. It should be noted, however, that not all studies have shown this degree of impact.

We don’t have a waiting list for PGT-A.

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Next-Gen PGT-A

Increasing IVF Success

Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A) is a test that can be performed as part of an IVF cycle. PGT-A works by looking at the genetic material of each embryo and making sure that the embryo is genetically normal and contains the correct number of chromosomes. Abnormal embryos generally do not lead to successful pregnancies and can result in the birth of a child with a genetic condition.

The technique of PGT-A requires IVF and growing embryos to the blastocyst stage (day 5 to 7). Many IVF labs are not equipped to carry out this level of test. The embryo must be “hatched” in the IVF lab, and a few cells biopsied from the outer trophectoderm layer of cells (which later goes on to form the placenta and membranes of a pregnancy). The embryo is then vitrified (an advanced technique of embryo freezing), and stored for later transfer back to the uterus. The biopsied cell samples are sent to a PGT-A lab for a count of chromosomes.

Embryos are stored after sampling, since genetic testing takes about a week. Embryos do well with the freezing-thawing process, with >97% of embryos surviving vitrification and thaw. Implantation rates improve too with a delayed transfer cycle as we’re able to bring the lining of your uterus to optimal conditions for carrying a healthy baby to term.

Identifying embryos with genetic abnormalities before they are transferred can have numerous benefits, including, but not limited to: a higher chance of pregnancy, and a reduced risk of miscarriage. We now utilize advanced next-generation PGT-A on all IVF patients.

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