Fertility Expert Series: Eric Forman on PGT-A

Aug 28, 2022

PGT-A is a hot topic in fertility medicine and I’m so happy that Dr. Eric Forman joined me to talk to us about a recent Chinese study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Takeaways:
- this study is getting a lot of attention because of the prestigious journal it’s published in
- the study design isn’t how we do things in the real world: we don’t just biopsy three embryos
- the average age was 29 of the patients and mean egg number 20 and we know from previous studies that PGT-A as a selection tool may help women over age 37 more than younger women
- the cumulative live birth rate was higher in the PGT arm
-  the study provided reassurances about PGT-A: the biopsy is safe, the group who did it had a higher implantation rate, similar cumulative live birth rate with fewer transfers, and fewer miscarriages. There were more congenital abnormalities in the non-biopsy group.

A big thank you to Dr. Forman for breaking this all down for us and for sharing how PGT-A can improve the live birth rate on the first transfer and make elective single embryo transfer the standard of care across ages.

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