The EmBIO Institute Donor Egg IVF Program EmBIO offers the largest, immediately available pool of highly-screened donors in Greece. Offering Patients Their Choice of Outstanding Egg Donors Local, National and International Patients May Begin Treatment Immediately For more than fifteen years, EmBIO Institute has provided patients from around the world with an extremely active, highly [...]
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Egg Donation Programmes
Today there are thousands of women who, for many different reasons need donated eggs in order to conceive. The donation is an anonymous procedure in which the donor provides oocytes to the receiving couple. Donated eggs from volunteers are fertilized with sperm from the recipients partner. After fertilization, the resulting embryos are transferred to the [...]
When is donor egg indicated?
Donor Egg IVF: When It May Be Indicated. The age and quality of a woman’s eggs greatly affect her ability to become pregnant and to carry a pregnancy to term. Women are born with all of the eggs they will ever produce. After a woman begins to menstruate, an immature egg matures each month and [...]
Donor Screening
The donors are ordinary, physically and mentally healthy men from a broad cross section of society. Most of them are students from institutions of higher education. Each donor candidate meets rigorous selection criteria and undergoes a thorough examination prior to acceptance. The donors receive a small remuneration, but it is our belief that they are [...]
Egg Donors
About Our Donors. Ensuring the availability of a large group of carefully screened donors and empowering patients to choose their own donor are the cornerstones of EmBIO’s donor egg IVF program. EmBIO matches its donor pool to the diverse ethnicity, talents, educational background and interests of its patients. With approximately 170 fully screened donors, you can [...]
Egg Recipients
The following important information is addressed to anyone who thinks she might need donor eggs as part of a fertility treatment programme. Please read the text carefully and call on 0030 210 6774104 or fill in the contact form in total confidence. If you need any further information or assistance Embio Recipient Programmes provide a linked [...]
FAQs on Donor Egg IVF
DONOR EGG IVF PROGRAM: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ). Who can be a recipient? In general, any woman with a medical or genetic indication for using an egg donor can be a recipient, if there are no medical contraindications to pregnancy. Our current age limit is 50 years. The decision to utilize donor eggs is made [...]
What is AMH?
AMH, or anti-mullerian hormone is a substance that is produced by granulosa cells in ovarian follicles. It is first made in primary follicles after they advance from the primordial follicle stage. At these stages the follicles are microscopic in size and can not be seen by ultrasound. AMH production is highest in the preantral and [...]
New Year Wishes
emBIO medical center Christmas e cards, new year e cards, and wishes for new year 2012 should really be happy new year messages. Please accept warm greetings and best wishes from Dr Thanos Paraschos and all EmBIO Personnel. http://www.ivf-embryo.gr/en
IVF Success Rates with Egg Donation at EmBIO
IVF Success Rates with Egg Donation at EmBIO Year Embryo Transfers Clinical Pregnancies Clinical Pregnancy Rate per Embryo Transfer 2011 503 350 70% 2010 449 291 65% 2009 358 243 68% 2008 309 191 62%
Gender Selection – Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Gender Selection – PGD. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is the most accurate technique for gender selection, with an almost 100% success rate. This success rate relates to the selection of the baby’s sex before the embryo is implanted to the woman’s uterus. Furthermore, the PGD method may itself increase your chances of getting pregnant. After [...]
Methods for Family Balancing
IUI Option: The majority of fertile, healthy couples use MicroSort with intrauterine insemination (IUI). Monitoring of your cycle for ovulation must occur to determine the best timing for IUI. Monitoring can often be performed using urinary ovulation prediction kits (OPK). Careful monitoring using blood hormone tests and pelvic ultrasound may be recommended to improve the [...]
Have your Fertility Treatment at your Convenience, in London or Liverpool
We don’t want to keep you waiting. If you can’t schedule your fertility treatment in Greece right away, don’t worry. Now, you can see emBIO’s fertility experts in London or Liverpool. In our comfy, air-conditioned rooms, discuss the fertility treatments suitable for your case, and your extra chances for a successful pregnancy at emBIO. If [...]
Pricelist
FEES In Euro. CONSULTATIONS Initial Consultation 150.00 Review Consultation 150.00 ANALYSES Hormone Assays (each) 100.00 Semen Analysis 100.00 Ultrasound Scan 50.00 Early Pregnancy Scan 50.00 Laparoscopy (may include hysteroscopy & laser) 1,300.00 Hepatitis B,C and HIV 80.00 Screening tests 150.00 TREATMENT PACKAGES (All scans, blood tests, anaesthetic charges included) Timed Coitus/Follicle Monitoring 150.00 Intrauterine Insemination [...]
Do you want to balance the gender in your family?
Even though each pregnancy has a 50% (or 1 in 2) chance to be male and a 50% (or 1 in 2) chance to be female, some families have more children of one gender. PGD for gender determination can help these couples have a child of the underrepresented gender in their family. I want learn [...]
Family balancing is gender selection that can be accomplished by PGD
Preimpantation Diagnosis (PGD) is available on-site at EMBIO IVF, which has one of the largest and most experienced PGD laboratories. PGD is a form of prenatal diagnosis performed on early embryos prior to implantation in the uterus and initiation of pregnancy. When using PGD, only embryos of the desired gender are returned to the uterus, [...]
Conditional Screening
Screening means «testing for diseases which existence is not known beforehand». We divide our screening policy into genetic screening and screening for sexual transmitted diseases (STD’s) (viruses and bacteria). Screening for STD’s does not really involve ethical problems, however, genetic screening does. Genetic screening – if it is unconditional screening – will very easily lead [...]
How to Make your Appointment for Donor Egg or Donor Sperm IVF
How soon can you start your IVF with semen or egg donation? There is no waiting list for egg or semen donation at EmBIO. You can easily make a quick appointment with Dr Paraschos. Just e-mail: paraschos@ivf-embryo.gr writing your: Name Surname Age Treatment you need (Egg Donation / Sperm Donation, or other) Your brief medical [...]
Making Parents out of Patients
Making Parents out of Patients. EmBIO Medical Center (Athens, Greece) achieves unexpectedly high rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and donor-egg pregnancies, providing breakthrough technologies with compassion for each patient. An extended family of medical and scientific fertility experts support each customer, personally committed to turn them from ‘infertility case’ to expecting mother, in the [...]
Inquiries
All inquiries are highly confidential.
Dr. Paraschos will respond personally within the next 24 hours
Dr Thanos Paraschos, trained by the Father of PGD, Lord Professor Robert Winston
Bob Edwards and Thanos Paraschos: Mutual Respect for IVF Innovation
