Angelica Cheng
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Here are three tips for Singaporean patients considering egg donation in Malaysia:
(1) Do not do highly-expensive genetic screening of IVF embryos (PGS / PGT-A). Instead, insist on doing genetic testing of the egg donor's blood sample, which is much cheaper than PGS. Moreover, you can also use NIPT (Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing) to screen for genetic defects in your unborn child after conception, which is also much cheaper than PGS.
Egg donation in Malaysia - Beware lack of rigorous genetic screening of Egg Donor (blood sample) and being pushed to do expensive PGS / PGT-A
In USA, Europe and Australasia, there are rigorous and high standards for genetic screening of prospective Egg Donors (blood sample), before they are even allowed to donate, which largely negate the requirement for recipient patients to use expensive preimplantation genetic screening ( PGS /...
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Is PGS / PGT-A really necessary for an egg donation cycle? Why not do Genetic Testing on the egg donor's blood sample?
A couple of months ago, before all the coronavirus lockdowns, me and my husband visited and inquired about egg donation at three Malaysian IVF clinics. All 3 clinics strongly advocated that we should use PGS / PGT-A with egg donation. They told us that because it is difficult to verify whether...
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(2) Use egg donors that reside locally within the same city as the IVF clinic. Avoid using traveling egg donors from out-of-town or out-of-state, who reside far away from the IVF clinic. It is much more difficult to control and monitor the ovarian stimulation cycle of traveling egg donors from out-of-town. If possible, insist that the egg donor regularly receives hormone injections (recorded) by a nurse at the IVF clinic itself.
Egg Donation in Johor Malaysia - traveling egg donors from out-of-town may not strictly follow ovarian stimulation protocol of hormone injections
Singaporean patients often choose to do IVF in Johor due to proximity and convenience. However, in the case of egg donation, Singaporean patients must beware that most egg donors in Johor come from out-of-town or out-of-state. This is because the overwhelming majority of egg donor agencies and...
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(3) When doing IVF with frozen (vitrified) donor eggs, use the same fertility clinic or IVF lab that recruited the egg donor and freeze her eggs. Avoid using frozen donor eggs that are transferred from an egg bank. If possible, use the IVF lab that is affiliated with that egg bank. For best results, the thawing protocol must be matching and compatible with the freezing (vitrification) protocol, and only the same IVF lab that performs both the freezing and thawing processes, can ensure this. Also beware that IVF success rates with frozen donor eggs are significantly lower than with fresh donor eggs.
Frozen (vitrified) Egg Donation in Malaysia- Ensure fertility clinic that do IVF / ICSI with frozen donor egg is also same clinic that freeze the eggs
Frozen (vitrified) donor eggs have caught on in popularity in recent years due to the following reasons: More convenient - there is no need to synchronize the timing and hormonal stimulation cycles of egg donors and recipient patients. Cheaper - due to negating the travel and hotel costs...
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