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The Importance of Resilience During Fertility Treatment
During the course of fertility treatment, many patients experience burn out and emotional exhaustion. However, according to Dr. Alice Domar, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Domar Centre for Mind/Body Health, if patients stay in treatment longer, they have a much better chance of getting pregnant. Numerous studies that characterize chances to conceive underscore this fact:…
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Coping with the Stress of COVID 19 and Fertility Treatment Delays
By Dr. Sony Sierra
Infertility is a difficult medical issue and part of the difficulty is the sense of not being in control. It’s a common emotion to feel helpless, despite doing everything right, and now, on top of that baseline emotion, we have to contend with the threat and reality of COVID-19. Worry about trying to conceive now…
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PGT-A and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
By: Dr. Sony Sierra, MD, FRCSC, REI
Dr. Sony Sierra, talks about how Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A) can help reduce the chance of miscarriage and who should consider this option.
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Coping With The Two-Week Wait: A Medical Perspective
By: Kaajal Abrol, MD, FRCSC, REI
THE TWO-WEEK WAIT – that is, the time from intercourse or insemination or embryo transfer until your blood pregnancy test – is one of the most difficult times of all during treatment. Because we’re here to help throughout your journey, we sat down with three of TRIO’s experts and asked them for medical advice, coping…
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Cycle Monitoring Understanding the process, its advantages, and limitations.
By: Dr. Kaajal Abrol, MD, FRCSC, REI
Cycle monitoring is a process of observing a woman throughout her menstrual cycle to observe a range of factors, such as how a follicle in the ovary develops during the cycle; to measure blood hormone levels throughout this process; and to determine whether and when ovulation is occurring. Timing is Everything Timing is very important…
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The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program at TRIO
By: Dr. Sony Sierra, MD, FRCSC, REI
Recurrent early pregnancy loss affects about 5% of women. At TRIO we have a comprehensive program that focuses on all aspects of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), this program is the largest in Canada and includes a personalized management strategy for each patient or couple to optimize the probability of a successful pregnancy. Heading up the…
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What is Polycystic ovarian syndrome and how is it treated?
By: Dr. Sony Sierra, MD, FRCSC, REI
PCOS or Polycystic ovarian syndrome affects about 5-7% of women. PCOS involves both anatomical or structural changes in the ovaries as well as hormonal changes. In the following videos Dr. Sony Sierra explains what PCOS is, how it affects fertility, and how it can be treated.
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Blocked Tubes and Fertility
By: Dr. Kaajal Abrol MD, FRCSC, REI
In the following videos, Dr. Kaajal Abrol explains how blocked fallopian tubes can affect fertility and what tests and treatments are available.
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What is PCOS and What Are the Options for Fertility Treatment?
By: Dr. Sony Sierra, MD, FRCSC, REI
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a fairly common condition that affects about five to seven percent of people with ovaries. Essentially, PCOS involves both a structural and a hormonal change in the function of the ovary. Ovaries in those with PCOS are bigger in volume, they’re denser in tissue and they are hormonally active in different…
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What is Unexplained Infertility and How is it Treated?
By: Dr. Dan Nayot, MD, M.Sc., FRCSC, REI
As the name implies, ’unexplained’ infertility means according to everything we’ve checked, we haven’t been able to pinpoint the reason you have not been able to get pregnant. Whether you’ve never been pregnant (primary unexplained), or if you’ve achieved a pregnancy before but are having difficulty now (secondary unexplained), this is a frustrating and upsetting…
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