Mini-IVF with Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola

Here are the details of the IVF and Mini-IVF costs at one clinic in Mexico.
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Regarding treatment costs, standard IVF at today's exchange would cost
you $5,ooo USD including medication and blood tests needed during
ovarian stimulation follow-up.

Cost for a Mini-IVF treatments remains the same (around $2,500 USD,
including bloods and meds). The same is true for the 3-month package
(5,000 USD + drugs and bloods).

Mini-IVF costs include baseline ultrasound and bloods, follow-up
during ovarian stimulation (ultrasound and bloods), egg collection and
embryo transfer.

What the 3-month package includes varies depending on your needs. You
will first have a Mini-IVF cycle with a fresh embryo transfer. If
surplus embryos are available for freezing (vitrification, if
required, is included in costs), we would freeze these. If the
surrogate doesn't get pregnant you'd have to use all of your frozen
embryos before attempting a further fresh cycle. If three Mini-IVF
cycles are needed within 3 months, then you would have all of them for
the package cost.

In the 3-month package, if you get pregnant on the first try, then
your pregnancy would've cost you 5000 USD. If you need the full 3
months of treatment, then the cost would be exactly the same.

- Is there a break in between to see if we have a positive pregnancy?

Ten days after each embryo transfer your surrogate would have a
pregnancy test performed. If this is negative, we would be ready to
perform an embryo transfer without delay and just 10 to 14 days
following the start of her period. In this way, she can have up to 3
embryo transfers within 3 months.

Please, add an approximate 5oo USD for surrogate's endometrial
preparation (drugs not included). This cost is the same for any of
the above mentioned options (Mini-IVF, standard IVF, and for each
embryo transfer during the 3-month package). Also, surrogate's fee is
not included in the above given quotes and you would have to make your
own arrangements with her.

Please, feel free to contact me should you have further questions
regarding your future treatment.

Best regards,

Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola


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Aussies flock to designer baby technology

By Danny Rose

February 01, 2009 12:11pm

Designer babies ... Australian couples are reportedly flocking to a US fertility clinic that allows customers to choose the sex, hair and eye colour of their child.

• Australian couples use US fertility clinic
• Allowed to choose sex, hair, eye colour
• Most concerned by genetic diseases

AUSTRALIAN couples are flocking to a US fertility clinic that allows them to chose not only the sex of their child, but "cosmetic" features such as hair and eye colour.
California-based Dr Jeffrey Steinberg says he spoke to 14 Australian couples in January, as the latest controversial advances in the field of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) came online.
"It's an advance of the technology and whenever there's an advance you can see the good side of it and the bad side of it," says Dr Steinberg, of The Fertility Institutes.
"The good side of it is there are children born with albinism, they are unable to make eye pigment, they are vulnerable to ultra-violet light and a good number of them end up blind.
"We started out trying to help these albino children and in the process we're learning how to predict eye colour."
The controversial side, Dr Steinberg agrees, is that parents can now be told the likely hair and eye colour of a future child as they make a decision on which of their fertilised embryos will go to pregnancy.

Dr Steinberg has three clinics across the United States and one in Mexico, which now handle about 800 couples a year. 

He says the majority are driven by concerns related to genetic illness, not gender, and this includes the 50 to 60 Australian couples he sees annually.
"I think we've got 14 new patients in January alone from Australia," he says.
"For example, I've just hung up with a patient from Australia who has Familial Hypercholesterolemia ... which can be life threatening because they get early heart attacks.
"The father has it and they have two boys and one of the boys has it.
"What they want, number one, is a girl but they also want to make sure that girl does not carry that Hypercholesterolemia gene."
But the PGD process is not cheap.
A basic scan for major genetic illnesses costs $US20,000 ($30,680) but Dr Steinberg says some couples, particularly from the oil rich gulf states, are prepared to spend up to $US500,000 ($767,000) to test for everything.
It works like this. Parents provide a number of fertilised embryos using the same techniques as in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Cells are removed from the embryos, and advances now allow them to be scanned for 6000 different genetic traits.
Genes determining sex, hair and eye colour can be identified, alongside any DNA red flags for diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and Down's Syndrome.
"Basically any genetic ailment, and there are thousands of them. We find the genetic error responsible for that in the embryo," Dr Steinberg says.
Only those embryos free of problem genetic markers and matching parental wishes, if stated, are then implanted in the mother.
Australian IVF clinics are allowed to make PGD assessments of an embryo for families with hereditary illness, but regulations prevent the selection embryos on the basis of preferred sex alone.
Dr Steinberg denies he's playing god, and says technology has handed parents the ability to ensure their child is as healthy as possible.
"To deny them the ability to do that when the technology is there is to me unethical," Dr Steinberg says.
"You can say eye colour and hair colour are not diseases, no they're not, and there is a cosmetic element to it, but we fix crooked noses all the time.
"It's new, it's scary and it's not for everyone ... but (people) shouldn't condemn it."
Bioethicist Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, of Melbourne's John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council.
He says he's concerned Australian women are risking their health by undertaking IVF overseas for "frivolous" reasons, using a process that raises the moral issue of "deliberate embryo loss".
"But the main issue is the idea of treating the child as an object, as product for which you are seeking quality control," Dr Tonti-Filippini says.
"It's a very unfortunate way to start parenthood because even the most perfect child turns into a screaming two-year-old."
Conservative group The Australian Family Association, which favours adoption over IVF and is opposed to abortion, is also a vocal critic.
"The brave new world of being able to make children to order, whether it is sex, eye colour or hair colour ... it's heinous," the association's national spokesman John Morrissey says.
"It means the creation of embryos in order to destroy them, and those embryos are human life however elementary."

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Dr. Fabian Walter Arballo

Dr. Fabian Walter Arballo, is the director of the Hospital Angels, department of Fertility and Assisted Reproduction in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Hospital Angeles, Tijuana

Name: Dr. Fabian Walters Arballo
Speciality: Gynecology and Obstetric and Biology of Human Reproduction
Occupation: Director of Clinic of Aid of Reproduction at Hospital Angeles in Tijuana, Mexico.
EDUCATION:
General Medicine: Universidad Autonoma de B. C.
Speciality: Obstetric and Gynecology Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia, Mexico D.F.
Professional Certificate: 3632121
Consejo Mexicano de Ginecologia y Obstetricia 4000
Areas of Intrest:
1) Clinical aspects or application:
Aplication in the area of gynecologist and obstetric, aid reproduction of low and high complexity, artificial insemination, fertilization In Vitro, laparoscopic, histeroscopic.
2) Basic or applied Investigation:
Basic studies of clinics in the area of Biology of Reproduction and of the Gynecology obstetric area.
3) Teaching
Continue Teaching and Education in Institutions at a level of pos degree internals, Honorary professor at the area of Gynecology obstetric of the ISSSTECALI Hospital in Tijuana, B. C.
MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OR INVESTIGATIONS.
American Association of Reproductive Medicine (ASMR)
Mexican Association of Medicine of the Reproduction (AMMR)
Mexican Federation of Obstetric Gynecologist (FEMECO)
Endoscopic College and Reproductive Medicine of Tijuana (CEMRT)
Association of Gynecologist and Obstetric of Tijuana (AGOT)

This is my Doctor! - Dr. Ruvalcaba

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1/15/2009 This post is from a story on the blog - http://yatelosabes.blogspot.com/

This is my Doctor!

Successful GB - 11 Aug. 2006



His dream was to be a footballer, but an injury he erased the idea of the mind. Now the scope of Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba Castellon is another: Give life, give hope.

Is director of the Mexican Institute of Infertility and its name came to light in 2005 when announcing the first pregnancy and subsequent birth in Mexico, product of devitrification technique, which is to freeze women's eggs. It was the second birth of its kind in Latin America and is the result of the application of techniques generated by the Kato Ladies Clinic, Tokyo, Japan.

Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba changed the tone of your voice to accept that Tapatio is one that has been placed at the forefront in this area, the extent of being invited to several cities in China to deliver lectures on the results obtained in clinic: 31 pregnancies in a little over a year.

Are impressed with our statistics, after Japan, is Mexico.

In his office, Dr. Ruvalcaba not stop watching the monitor of your computer, which projects the image of several points in the clinic, thanks to the magic of the Internet that allows you to even be in another country and distance monitor the activities of the institute . The cost of being an avant-garde has been high: sleeping four to five hours daily on average, reduce the family and sometimes have to stop the goal of the soccer team which plays every Tuesday, to meet any emergency.


Medicine saw as an elusive goal, but goals proponiéndote you get things done. In the internship I chose obstetrics and gynecology, also saw the need to solve problems related to reproduction, relative and says that currently 20% of couples who are looking for a baby, have reproductive problems.


He traveled to Germany to study and overcome the shortcomings and cold, which are now only memories. Invested their money to create a center for assisted reproduction in 1998 and since then has not stopped. His constant travels to the conventions used to travel with his family. Besides playing football, is a distraction Go Karts team with three of her four children, and not immune to the temptation to step on a weekly golf courses.


-Begin to operate at seven o'clock, the first at nine, attends 40 to 50 patients daily, sometimes I will not eat, but I raised targets, try to do what I like to one hundred percent explains Ruvalcaba, who works with a group of 40 people at the Chiva instituto.Acepta be colored stone, have a life Revolution, since breakfast and how to race, but having the motivation to achieve targets us, we are still the inChina skin that a woman can be pregnant, with our support and the hand of God, we were not in the common denominator of people, we always want more, said Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba, who dreams of being somebody in life and we have disseminated learned, and that this farm work.

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Assisted Reproduction Techniques:
Artificial Insemination
In Vitro Fertilization
Egg freezing (Vitrificación)

Bank of ova and sperm

Oocyte donation
ICSI
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
IMSI
Assisted hatching (Hatching)
Laser Reproduction
In Vitro Maturation
Sperm retrieval techniques

OVARY TRANSPLANTS

Andrologia

GENETIC COUNSELING

GYNECOLOGIC ENDOSCOPY

Laparoscopy and hysteroscopy

PSYCHOLOGY IN REPRODUCTION

NUTRITION ON REPRODUCTION

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