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Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Success Rates 2008

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) collect and report statistics for U.S. fertility clinics. The CDC maintains a web site where you can view past years live birth results.  Click here to see the results

2008 ART STATISTICS
 

Fresh IVF/ICSI cycles - Day 3 and Blastocysts Combined

Age of Woman <35
35-37 38-40 41-42 43-44Totals
Cycle starts219 154
151
58
22
604
Retrievals
205
143
129
44
18
539
Transfers
189
138
122
4315
507
Pregnancies
97 68 53 10
4
232
Pregnancy rate per start
44.3%
44.2% 35.1% 17.2%18.2% 38.4% 
Pregnancy rate per retrieval
47.3% 47.6% 41.1%
22.7% 22.2% 43.0% 
Pregnancy rate per transfer
51.3% 49.3% 43.4% 23.3% 26.7% 45.8% 
Cancellation rate6.4%
7.1% 14.6% 24.1% 18.2% 10.8% 

 

Frozen embryo cycles - Day 3 and Blastocysts Combined

Age of Woman  <3535-37 38-40  41-4243-44 Totals 
Transfers
10862
44
13
2
229
Pregnancies
5433
19 0
109 
Pregnancy rate per transfer
50.0%
53.2%43.2%
23.1%
0% 47.6% 

Fresh IVF/ICSI cycles - Donor Eggs

Cycle starts 93
Donor retrievals (some shared)85
Recipient transfers 83
Pregnancies
64
Pregnancy rate per start
68.8%
Pregnancy rate per transfer
77.1%
Cancellation rate
6.6%

 

Frozen embryo cycles - Donor

Recipient transfers
64
Pregnancies
27
Pregnancy rate per transfer 42.2%


Blastocyst Transfers 

Age of Woman<35 35-37
38-40  >41Donor Totals
Embryo transfers13087
67
2083
387
Clinical pregnancies
88
51
36
11
65
251
Pregnancy rate per transfer
67.7%
58.6%
53.7%
55.0%
78.3%
 64.9%

NOTE: "A comparison of clinic success rates may not be meaningful because patient medical characteristics and treatment approaches may vary from clinic to clinic."  ASRM October 1999

 
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