Fertility Treatment (IVF) Abroad

Fertility treatment abroad, including IVF abroad, Egg donation abroad and Embryo donation abroad provided by PRAGA MEDICA offers a comprehensive and unique service. We are offering you affordable and discreet way how to deal with your infertility troubles by obtaining infertility treatment in Prague – Czech Republic. Our full service includes arranging your medical trip, providing personal assistance at the clinic as well as accommodation, transfers and other services tailored to your specific needs.

PRAGA MEDICA provide fertility treatment at a private medical centre that has been operating in the field of fertility treatment for over 15 years. We emphasize an individual approach towards our clients and health care quality, as documented by the certification of quality management ISO 9001-2008. We provide full range of methods of assisted reproduction - IVF, ICSI, assisted hatching, cultivation of embryos to the blastocyst stage, cryoprogramme, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, donor programmes – donated sperm, eggs, and embryos.

Brief description of the IVF process:

During IVF in Prague the egg is removed from the ovaries, fertilised by sperms in laboratory and the fertilised egg is then transferred into uterus. To have a higher probability of a successful result, one egg is not enough so we stimulate the ovarian activity with hormones, in order to have more eggs maturing at the same time. Effects of the treatment are repeatedly checked with ultrasound while checking the hormonal levels. When the eggs mature, we remove them with a needle inserted through the vaginal wall while checking the process with ultrasound, then we move the eggs to a special nutrient solution and add the sperms.

Embryo transfer:

After two to five days, we insert the embryos through vagina and uterine suppository into uterus, using a very thin catheter. The more embryos are transferred, the better chance of success there is, but the risk of multiple pregnancies is also increasing at the same time; that's why we usually transfer and insert only one or two embryos into the uterus at a time, only in extraordinary cases we transfer more embryos. The other embryos can be frozen and transferred after defrosting in one of the next cycles so there is no need for the woman to undergo neither the ovarian stimulation, nor their punction. All steps of fertility treatment in Prague are outpatient treatments without being admitted to the hospital.

IVF In-Vitro Fertilisation – general schedule:

medical questionnaire → doctor's evaluation → booking of treatment → email/phone consultation

Possibility 1: Complete IVF cycle at our institute in Prague.

• Arrival in Prague directly before menstruation, woman resides for approx. 3 weeks, residence of partner may be minimized to 1-2 days.

= in total 10 or 20 nights in Prague

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Possibility 2: IVF cycle in cooperation with your gynaecologist

• Two visits in Prague, the first may be managed in a single day. Subsequently, in an arbitrary further cycle, the stimulation treatment itself with check-ups by a coordinating gynaecologist, arrival 2 days prior to ova (egg) extraction, woman leaves approx. 7-9 days afterwards, the partner may leave after 2 days, or in case of use of frozen sperm, residence of partner is not necessary at all.

= in total 1, 5 - 9 nights in Prague

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We assure your pregnancy in two following synchronized cycles, otherwise the third cycle is completely free of charge!

Egg Donation Program (=oocyte donation) in Prague enables women, whose ovaries due to old age or some other reason don't contain eggs capable of fertilization, to get pregnant. The egg donor is always a young woman less than 35 years old.

The sterility treatment using donor eggs is a legal treatment method in the Czech Republic, approved by „the Act on human embryonic stem cell research and relevant activities and in the amendment of other relevant laws “from 2006. The basic legal principal states that the mother of a child is the woman who gives birth. The other principle embedded in this Act is absolute anonymity.

There are two ways to treat acquired donated eggs.

The first one uses sperm frozen beforehand. The eggs are fertilized by them and the resulting embryos are frozen. Then the transfer of these cryo-embryos proceeds in any of the following cycles.

In the second option only surplus embryos are frozen, and the selected number of foetuses is directly implanted into the uterus of the recipient. At this point we talk about the cycle with synchronization.

The worldwide trend leans towards cycles with synchronization, because they have a higher rate of success. We also recommend our patients to choose this method. While the chance of impregnation by cycles with cryo-embryos moves between 20% up to 30% for one transfer, the success rate for synchronized cycles is approximately by 10 to 15% higher. In this case the woman has to undergo a hormonal treatment in advance which will harmonize her cycle with the donor's one. However, we believe this small disadvantage causing smaller time flexibility surely pays off.

Egg donation – general schedule:

medical questionnaire → doctor's evaluation → booking of treatment → email/phone consultation

• Day 1 – arrival
• Day 2 – Initial consultation, gynaecological examination. The man will follow with blood sampling and sperm freezing. Paperwork, payment, signatures, man can leave if necessary.
• All of the above can be also done in advance during the initial 24hour visit to Prague
• Day 3 - 7 eggs retrieved from the donor, their fertilization
• 2 - 5 days after fertilization (i.e. between Day 5 – 12) cultivation of embryos takes place. It is finished by embryo transfer
• After the transfer we recommend to relax at least for 24 hours before you fly back home.

= in total 7 - 13 nights

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"If no pregnancy occurs, we will assign to you a new dose of frozen embryos free of charge!"

Donation of embryos is in the Czech Republic a legal treatment and is regulated by the law from the year 2006. From the professional point of view this involves a combination of simultaneous donation of oocytes and sperm. What unequivocally applies is that the mother is always the woman who gives birth to the child.

Origin of donated embryos:

We use embryos stored at our institute in a frozen state. They most often come from couples that were successfully treated at our institute and do not desire more children. The second possibility of embryo origin for donation is the fertilization of eggs of a voluntary female donor with sperm from a voluntary male donor.

Embryo donation – general schedule:

medical questionnaire → doctor's evaluation → booking of treatment → email/phone consultation

• Day 1 – arrival
• Day 2 – Initial consultation, gynaecological examination. Paperwork, payment, signatures, man can leave if necessary.
• If you wish the above can be also done in advance during extra 24hour visit to Prague
• Day 3 - 6 transfer of embryos (depending on their previous cultivation)
• After the transfer we recommend to relax at least for 24 hours before you fly back home.

= in total usually 4 - 7 nights in Prague

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