Egg Donation for Women over 50

At North Cyprus IVF Center we believe that women over 50 still have the chance of becoming mothers.

We ask that you have the following tests through your General Practitioner to clear you for pregnancy:

Full Blood Count
Liver and Kidney Function Tests
Cardiological Test
Ultrasound

The success rate for egg donation for women over 45 years old is 58%.

Our oldest patient to date was 52 years old and recently gave birth to healthy twins.

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Egg Donation Program

Egg Donation IVF is the treatment method for women who do not have healthy eggs for conception. The following list indicates women who are ideal candidates for egg donor IVF treatment at North Cyprus IVF clinic:

- Women who are going through premature menopause
- Women who have had their ovaries removed and therefore do not produce eggs
- Women who have undergone cancer treatment and have damaged ovaries
- Women who were born without functioning ovaries (Turner's syndrome)
- Women with poor ovartian reserves
- Women with hereditary genetic disorders
- Women who have had multiple miscarriages due to chromosomal abnormalities
- Women who have had multiple failed IVF attempts with own eggs.
- Women who are menopausal.

Who Are Egg Donors at North Cyprus IVF?

Our egg donor base is consisted predominantly of international students studying at various universities in Cyprus. As a result, majority of our egg donors are between 20-24 years of age. This is precisely why our success rates are considerably higher than most of the IVF clinics in the world. Our egg donors are very young and most of them have previous positive donation histories.

In general, our egg donor selection criteria can be summarized as follows:
- women between 20-29 years of age.
- women with BMI's between 19-24
- women with no known hereditary genetic diseases in family.
- women with no mental disability
- women who do not use drugs and do not smoke

Our egg donors undergo a very strict screening process at our clinic before they are admitted to our donation program. All egg donors go through psychological counseling and numerous infectious disease testing as well as karyotype analysis.

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Vitamins and IVF

Vitamins are an essential part of your treatment. It has been shown that folic acid supplements not only help you maintain a healthy pregnanyc, but also help with your baby’s neural development, therefore, it is important to start using folic acid prior to embryo transfer and continue using for the duration of your pregnancy.

Similarly, use of Vitamin C tablets (precisely, 500 mg) has been identified with increased quality of eggs retrieved, therefore, it will be important to use vitamin C supplements daily for at least 2-3 weeks prior to egg retrieval.

Finally, because your daily food intake may not provide you with all the essential nutrients, it will be important to use a prenatal vitamin complex prior to and throughout your pregnancy. Pregnacare or any other one-a-day prenatal vitamin complex will be useful.

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Infertility Investigation

Infertility is often defined as inability to conceive naturally after trying for one year without any contraception. Women who are able to get pregnant but who are unable to carry pregnancy to full term are also considered to be infertile. About 10% of the US population, and around 9% of the European population between the ages of 15-44 have either difficulty conceiving or carrying pregnancy to full term.

Even though infertility is often perceived as a women's problem due to its direct link to pregnancy, female and male infertility have about the same level of prevalence within the society. About one-third of the causes of infertility are associated with female factor infertility and another one-third is associated with male factor infertility when the rest is either due to a combined male-female factor or unexplained infertility.

If you have been trying to get pregnant for the past one year and have not been able to get pregnant, then you might belong in either one of these groups. For partners who have not been successful at achieving pregnancy for a full year, a series of tests is in order. Infertility investigation works in a dual manner where both partners undergo a testing process. The starting point of infertility testing would be as follows:

- For male partner, a semen analysis is required. Krueger's semen analysis

provides information on sperm count, volume, motility, morphology and

a few more factors. This would be the starting point of infertility investigation.

- For female partner, hormone testing is in order. If the female partner has

regular menstrual periods, then hormone tests such as FSH, LH, Estradiol,

Prolactine and TSH. If the female partner is young, but does not have regular

menstrual periods, then apart from the hormone tests, further investigation

may be necessary to see into the ovarian function and the uterus. Irregular

periods could be due to Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or any other

problems.

When standard hormone testing and sonogram investigations fail to provide an answer, more invasive testing process will be in order. Female partner might be required to have a hysteroscopy as well as certain infectious disease tests such as Chlamydia, CMV IgG and Toxoplasmosis.

When all the above testing processes fail to yield and answer, then thrombophilia defects and immune system problems are to be investigated. Especially for women with repeated miscarriages, thrombophilia is one of the main suspects.

Sometimes, patients who complete their first round of testing can be offered fertility treatment before attempting the more in-depth and invasive tests. This is simply because, the likelihood of belonging in the unexplained infertility group is very high and the expensive testing procedures can be very overwhelming. Therefore, before attempting these tests, an IVF treatment can be attempted first and if the result is negative, then further tests can be performed. In most cases, partners are able to achieve pregnancy without consulting the invasive testing processes.

At North Cyprus IVF, we take into consideration every single factor that can potentially be contributing to your infertility problems. When we ask you to have a series of tests, it is merely due to the fact that we are trying hard to make sure we are able to offer you the most effective type of treatment that is unique and suitable for your specific needs.

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Quick Review

Some more great news from our patients! 


Dear Ahmet & team

I am delighted to inform you that I am pregnant.  I have just had my 12 week scan and all is good.  I wanted to wait until i did the 12 week scan so that we can be sure of the good news.

Thank you very much for all your help.

I will keep in touch and hopefully be able to give you further good news in another 6 months.

With best wishes,


S.C - United Kingdom


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Egg Donation / Egg Donor IVF

Egg Donation Treatment Procedures

Egg (oocyte) donation IVF is the treatment option for couples with female infertility factor. In many instances, the female’s egg production could be insufficient, egg quality maybe poor or the age of the patient does not allow her to conceive with her own eggs. This option is also explored when the female is already in menopause and unable to produce eggs. In this case, a healthy egg donor is chosen and her eggs are used to fertilize with the husband’s sperm. The formed zygote is then transferred into the wife’s uterus. An egg donor is the person who donates her eggs to be received by another woman who is not able to become pregnant with her own eggs. An egg donor needs to meet certain criteria. Her body mass index must be within healthy standards and the acceptable age range for a donor is between 21 and 29. In order to ensure that a donor is physically, genetically and psychologically healthy for the donation, she has to undergo a number of tests.

Practically, egg donation IVF infertility treatment works very much like conventional IVF with the five step program, but only in this case, a young donor is selected to undergo the medication treatment. Once the donor's eggs are fully grown, they are retrieved to fertilize with the sperm. The rest of the steps are identical to those of IVF.

The female patient, who is undergoing egg donation IVF treatment, however, also needs to take certain medication prior to the embryo transfer stage to make sure that the uterus is fully prepared for pregnancy.

In egg donation IVF programs, we make sure that the donor's blood group is compatible with the couple who is undergoing this treatment. The female can also choose the donor based on certain physical characteristics such as hair, eye and skin color, education and work status and ethnicity. However, due to legal restrictions of Northern Cyprus, we cannot arrange for the patients to come in contact with their egg donor. Neither we are allowed to show pictures. The egg donor remains anonymous for the entire procedure.

The cost of egg donation IVF is slightly higher than conventional IVF since it requires the use of an egg donor. However, we are able to offer this treatment program at competitively low and affordable cost levels. For more information regarding the costs, please use the contact form.

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Egg Donation (Donor Egg IVF) Questions

1- Who is a good candidate for egg (oocyte) donor IVF?
Women with severely depleted ovarian reserves, women with highly elevated FSH, women in early menopause or with removed ovaries and women who have been subjected to cancer treatment are all candidates for egg donor IVF. In general, egg donation is for women who are not able to produce any eggs that are viable for fertilization.
 

2- Who are your egg donors?
At North Cyprus IVF, our egg donors are predominantly composed of international university students aged between 20-25.
 

3- How are egg donors screened?
Our egg donors undergo a very strict screening process. First, there is a psychological consultation where egg donors' mental status are assessed. If an egg donor is found mentally fit, then there is a background check of family medical history. Once the medical history is assessed, then comes infectious diseases testing, CBC analysis and hormone testing for an assessment of ovarian reserves and egg quality. Only donors who are non-smokers and with healthy BMIs are admitted into our program.
 

4- Do I get to pick my own donor?
Absolutely! You will need to provide us with your menstrual period information, you and your husband's blood types and your physical features so that we can narrow list our potential donors and send you a list of profiles. However, for anonymity purposes, we are not able to share pictures or any contact information.
 

5- What are your success rates for egg donor IVF?
Our overall success rate including all age groups for egg donation in 2011 was 72.8%. For more information on our success rates, please view our success statistics for 2011.

6- How many egg donation cycles do you perform in a given year?
On average, we perform about 350-400 egg donor IVF cycles.

7- What is the cost of egg donor IVF at North Cyprus IVF Clinic?
For most accurate cost information for egg donation including our accommodation packages, please contact us using the contact form.
 

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Our Egg Donation Program

Who are our donors?

Our donors are predominantly between the ages of 19-24, who are international students studying at Cyprus universities. As we have a large donor base, donor matching is a relatively fast process, hence the waiting times are not long. For donor matching, we need information like your blood types, your physical features, and possibly a picture so that we can provide you with a list of profiles who are best matches.

You will be provided information like, age, physical features, educational background, hobbies and interests as well as previous donation information. All of our donors undergo a very strict screening process where we do not only screen for infectious diseases, but also run a family medical background as well as HPV genotyping (which is only available at our clinic in the entire Northern Cyprus)

Where to begin?

The first step in treatment is to see your local gynecologist for an ultrasound scan (sonogram). This is to make sure that the female partner has no major fibroids, polyps in the uterus, or cysts in the ovaries, or nothing in general that can potentially interfere with a successful pregnancy.      

The initial treatment is carried out very easily with a chart of treatment we will provide you based on your credentials. This chart of treatment will contain daily medication use, as well as a schedule for your doctor appointments. It will all be made clear once we know what type of a protocol to follow. Once we are able to provide you with a chart, then we can carry out the preliminary work through email and phone communication both with you and your gynecologist. Once the preliminary work is done, you will need to come to Cyprus for about 6 days. You will be expected to arrive in Cyprus around the 14^th day of menstrual period.

We will need infectious disease test results before we can perform the embryo transfer here. You can either have them done over there or here once you arrive at our clinic. This is just to make sure we do not pass any infectious diseases onto the newborn.

Obtaining Medication and the Initial Treatment

We will be able to send you a scanned copy of your prescription once we see some test results and identify the right mode of treatment. You can use this prescription at the international pharmacy that we work with. The pharmacy is able to deliver worldwide, and does have reasonable prices.

With the medication you purchase, you will be able to have your preliminary work locally under our supervision and with guidance of your local gynecologist. By the end of this process, you will be required to travel to Cyprus for 6 days.

Traveling to Cyprus                    

Our clinic is located in Nicosia, North Cyprus. The nearest airport to our clinic is the Ercan Airport. All flights into Ercan Airport do go through one of the cities in Turkey, so there are no direct flights. The most straightforward route into Ercan would be to fly through Istanbul.

Another alternative is Larnaca Airport in the South. It is located approximately 60 km South of our clinic, and takes about one hour to travel. Sometimes, flights into Larnaca can be much cheaper depending on the season, so checking out both airports will make sense before booking your flights.

Transportation from both airports is complimentary.

Accommodation

We offer three alternatives:

1- Egg Donor IVF Treatment + Accommodation at the Clinic’s guest house. The guest house is a newly finished luxurious 4-bedroom villa. Each bedroom is has its own TV, own minibar and own heating/cooling system. Two of the bedrooms have their own bathrooms, while the other two bedrooms have a shared bathroom. It includes free airport transfers from the Ercan and Larnaca Airports and all ground transfers back and forth. All of your consults and sonograms are offered free of charge for the duration of your stay in Cyprus.

2- Egg Donor IVF Treatment + Accommodation at the 3-star City Royal Hotel in Nicosia (http://www.city-royal.com). This package includes your treatment fees, airport pick-ups from either Ercan or Larnaca Airports, ground transfers between the clinic and the hotel, 6-day hotel accommodation at the City Royal, including open buffet breakfast. Again, all of your consults and sonograms are offered free of charge for the duration of your stay in Cyprus. 

3- Egg Donor IVF Treatment + Accommodation at the 5-star Luxurious Golden Tulip Hotel in Nicosia (http://www.goldentulipnicosia.com). This package includes your treatment fees, airport pick-ups from either Ercan or Larnaca Airports, ground transfers between the clinic and the hotel, 6-day hotel accommodation at the Golden Tulip, including open buffet breakfast. Again, all of your consults and sonograms are offered free of charge for the duration of your stay in Cyprus.

** Availability and pricing of hotels are subject to change during national and religious holidays.

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Tandem IVF Cycle

 North Cyprus IVF Center offers Tandem Cycling which has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. This treatment allows for women who have low quality eggs or ovarian reserve to try for IVF with their own eggs along with back-up eggs from an egg donor at the same time.

Since we will only require a few good quality eggs from the patient, the medication dose is lower and at the end of the process, it is up to the individual to decide which eggs they wish to use. In the even the patient decides to use their own eggs, the donor eggs can be frozen for an attempt in the future if necessary.

The Tandem IVF Cycle reduces the costs and increases the chances of a positive result.

This treatment is a wonderful option for women who do not have great hormone levels or AMH results or for women who have tried IVF with ICSI a few times with no success.  It is a great option for patients who wish to give one more go with their own eggs but with an option to proceed with donor eggs in the event that the quality of their own eggs are not suitable for the IVF.

Both the patient and egg donor are prepared and monitored on the same cycle and eggs are collected on the same day.  Once the embryos are ready, the patient can then deciede if they wish to use their own embryos, the donor embryos or a combination of both embryos.

We have been providing this treatment for a few years and have yielded many positive results.

It is also a good treatment for women who have a hard time accepting egg donation as their only option. If there is a combination of both embryos used and a positive pregnancy is achieved,  the patient does not know which embryo actually implanted making the psychological burden less.