The department of reproductive medicine at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment options from its fertility clinic, with the exception of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
Treatment options are available to both NHS and self-funded patients.
Fertility treatment services available include:
- Induction of ovulation with clomiphene
- Induction of ovulation with gonadotrophins
- Intra-uterine insemination with partners sperm (IUIP)
- Intra-uterine insemination with donor sperm (IUID)
- In vitro fertilisation (IVF)
- IVF plus intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection techniques (ICSI)
- Embryo freezing and storage using state of the art vitrification methods
- Blastocyst culture and blastocyst freezing
- Frozen embryo replacement treatment
- Donor sperm bank
- Sperm freezing
- Surgical sperm retrieval techniques and storage:
- Percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration (PESA)
- Testicular biopsy using local and general anaesthetic
- Premature infertility – sperm, egg and embryo storage –
- Tubal microsurgery and other reproductive surgical procedures
- Minimally invasive treatment of endometriosis
- Ovarian reserve testing
- Counselling