Infertility specialists at the UI Center for Advanced Reproductive Care are national leaders specializing in assistive reproductive evaluation and treatment for male and female patients, offering a range of state-of-the-art options, including surgical procedures, inseminations, ovulation induction, donor eggs and donor sperm, and surrogacy, as well as fertility preservation.
As the state’s only comprehensive academic medical center, UI Hospitals and Clinics offers experienced clinical care and an ability to assess outcomes from a research standpoint, said Bradley Van Voorhis, MD, director of the IVF Program.
Last year, the UI center expanded its services with the purchase of the UI Center for Advanced Reproductive Care—Quad Cities. Paul Figge, M.D., one of only eight fellowship-trained reproductive endocrinologists in Iowa, is the primary physician at the center. He has more than 20 years experience treating and counseling women with infertility.
The UI is a leader in successful elective single embryo transfers, based on a policy that has been on the books since 2004. Since 1987, the UI IVF program enabled more than 2900 deliveries, resulting in 3,822 babies (through December 2009). The center’s delivery rate is consistently above 50 percent per oocyte retrieval cycle for women under age 35, which is about 10 percent above the national average.
Multiple births continue to be a concern among women under age 35 who choose IVF. Nationally, only about 5 percent of IVF procedures in women under age 35 are single-embryo transfers; the UI’s rate has been at least 30 percent since 2006. The IVF program’s stated goal is to help couples have one healthy baby at a time.
For further information or to refer a patient, call 1-800-322-8442. For appointments in Iowa City, call 319-356-8483. For appointments in the Quad Cities, call 563-355-2244.
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