更低价更温和的试管婴儿方案_BEC初级作文

更低价更温和的试管婴儿方案

今年35岁的护士尼伯本・刘易斯(Neeburbunn Lewis)家住缅因州波特兰附近，她与丈夫在一个周期的传统试管受孕治疗上花了20,000 到25,000美元，这给她带来了她的第一个孩子。她说，在他们二人想要第二个孩子时，“从经济状况上说，再进行一轮治疗是不可行的。”此外，她还得过卵巢过度刺激综合征，并因此在试管受孕期间入院治疗。她说：“我不能让我的身体再经受一次了。”她从自己的妇产科医生那儿听说了微刺激试管受孕，于是在波士顿人工受孕医疗中心(Boston IVF)的缅因分部接受了一周期治疗，这一次的花费是5,000美元。现在她怀第二胎已经八个月了。

Ms. Lewis's reproductive endocrinologist, Benjamin Lannon, says he sees minimal-stimulation IVF as an option 'where cost is the primary barrier' to access. But patients need to understand their chances of getting pregnant per cycle are lower than with conventional stimulation, he says.

刘易斯的生殖内分泌科医生本杰明・兰农(Benjamin Lannon)说，他认为微刺激试管受孕是“费用为主要障碍”时采取的选择，但是患者需明白该方案每周期的受孕几率要低于传统刺激方案。

To perform a milder course of IVF, Sherman Silber, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis, uses an inexpensive oral drug and low, infrequent doses of injectable drugs to stimulate women to produce only a modest amount of eggs at one time, which he says increases their average quality. In some cases, if enough embryos aren't produced in one cycle, they are frozen and the cycle is repeated until there are several more embryos to transfer.