Other Services

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)

PRP Therapy has been used in conjunction with other conventional fertility treatments like In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) to improve egg quantity, uterine lining thickness, and endometrial receptivity, primarily in the treatment of recurrent implantation failure experienced over multiple IVF cycles.

PRP is most often used in those who have undergone multiple IVF cycles with a history of recurrent implantation failure (RIF), a condition in which multiple IVF transfers do not result in pregnancy despite high-quality embryos being transferred on multiple occasions. PRP is usually tried before turning to donor egg IVF but may be used alongside donor egg cycles along with other supporting treatments focusing on reproductive immunology.

Luteal Phase Stimulation

For many patients, Luteal Phase Stimulation or PLS can be an effective treatment option when others have failed. Essentially, LPS this the start of a second stimulation just after your first egg retrieval while still in the luteal phase of your cycle. At this time, your ovaries are somewhat primed and may be able to recruit additional follicles that can add to your overall cohort of eggs and eventually embryos. The more we have to work with, the better your chance of success.

LPS can optimize outcomes for women with Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR), improves bolster egg quality, and reduces the burden of care by doing two retrievals in a shorter period of time.

Physiological Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (PICSI)

Generation Next Fertility is proud to offer PICSI as one of our lab services to help create the best quality embryo possible. Physiological Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (PICSI) is a procedure in which the sperm is selected based on its ability to bind to a hyaluronic acid plate.

The hyaluronan enzyme in the sperm allows mature sperm to bind to the hyaluronic acid, which is the material surrounding the egg. During PICSI, sperm is added to a plate coated with hyaluronic acid. By selecting sperm that are bound to the plate, higher quality sperm can be chosen and injected into the egg by ICSI. This method provides the laboratory team with additional criteria for sperm selection in addition to pure visual inspection. At Generation Next Fertility, we typically recommend PICSI for:

Previous failures (Even after ICSI)
History of low embryo quality that is not related to poor egg quality
Multiple miscarriages

How is PICSI different from ICSI?

ICSI is performed by injecting a single sperm into an egg in order to form an embryo. PICSI, in contrast, allows the selection of sperm according to their attachment to a molecule similar to hyaluronic acid. The embryologist is not the one making the selection in PICSI. Only mature sperm, and therefore those with the greatest capacity to fertilize the egg, will join these molecules.

What are the benefits of PICSI?

The main advantage of the PICSI method is that it allows the selection of sperm in way that is entirely objective. The process occurs completely Independently of the embryologist’s opinion, unlike what happens in ICSI. This means that the sperm are selected individually and have low fragmentation rates thus reducing the possibility of genetic alterations.