Jamsil Cha Hospital Opens Korea's First IVM Research Center Expectations for Difficult Couple's New Hope
Sep 29, 2024
Jamsil Cha Hospital opened the first IVM (In Vitro Maturation) research center in Korea on the second floor of Lotte Castle Gold on the 26th. The opening of the IVM center has opened the era of personalized infertility treatment.
Jamsil Cha Hospital is expected to bring about a breakthrough in infertility treatment by having an IVF (In vitro Baby Center) and an IVM center together. IVM is the world's first technology developed by Cha Kyung-ryul's research team in 1989, and it received great attention by breaking the academic opinion that immature eggs cannot become fetuses.
With this technology, Cha Hospital received the best thesis award at the American Reproductive Medicine Society in 1989 and emerged as a dark horse in the infertility medical world as it was heavily introduced to the cover of TIME, an American weekly magazine, and the BBC. World-class infertility scholars also visited the laboratory of Cha Hospital to learn IVM.
Director Lee Hak-cheon of Jamsil Cha Hospital explained, "In an era when it was considered the norm to inject women with hyperovulation to mature and use eggs, IVMs have broken the framework and common sense of infertility by maturing discarded eggs outside the body and even giving birth." "For 35 years, this technology has been developed in countries around the world and used for women who cannot use hyperovulation drugs or those who want naturalistic procedures without getting injections, and the success rate of pregnancy has increased significantly."
In addition, it is expected that the technology will be further developed at Jamsil Cha Hospital, where medical staff with the highest pregnancy success rate in Korea gather to further expand the choice of procedures for infertile patients," he said.
IVM has previously been used limitedly in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome, where ovaries are likely to become hypervascularized by hyperovulation-induced injections. However, it is applied to patients regardless of the menstrual cycle when freezing eggs for preservation of fertility before receiving chemotherapy, including patients who recently suffer from repeated implantation failures due to poor egg quality and poor fertilized eggs due to development of culture technology and cutting-edge equipment.
Director Lee Hak-cheon said, `IVM will be the hope of numerous infertile couples as it can reduce the medical side effects and cost burden caused by hyperovulation, and there is no difference in the health of babies compared to natural pregnancy or general IVF.'
The success rate of pregnancy is also increasing as many infertility scholars and IVF centers around the world are introducing and studying this technology, and in 2022, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine also recognized IVM technology as a new fertility treatment method.
Meanwhile, the top medical staff of the Cha Hospital Infertility Center gathered at the Jamsil Cha Hospital Infertility Center, which began treatment on April 15.
Professor Lee Hak-cheon, an authority on treatment of aged and habitual miscarriage, IVM treatment, and Professor Choi Dong-hee, who gave birth to more than 15,000 new lives called `Samshin Grandma', Professor Shin Ji-eun, who has a high pregnancy success rate with pre-implantation genetic tests and advanced procedures, Professor Won Young-bin, who specializes in treating polycystic ovarian syndrome and repeated implantation failures, Professor Choi Seung-young, who specializes in preservation of fertility and customized treatment for each patient, and Professor Park Ji-eun, who specializes in reducing ovarian function and preserving fertility. In addition, the fertility laboratory, which is responsible for increasing the success rate of pregnancy, is also continuing the world's highest pregnancy success rate with more than 20 years of veteran researchers working with professors.
Cha Hospital, which celebrated its 64th anniversary this year, became the world's first to succeed in conceiving and giving birth to immature eggs in 1989, and developed a vitrified egg freezing method (egg rapid freezing) in 1998 to succeed in pregnancy and childbirth. Based on this, the world's first egg bank was established in 1999 and attracted attention.
The World Society of Reproductive Medicine, which was negative for egg banks, also began to develop rapidly after quoting the American Reproductive Medicine Society in Hawaii in 2014 that egg banks are no longer an experimental stage and are recommended for preserving fertility. Cha Hospital operates 27 fertility centers in Australia, including six institutions in Korea, including Jamsil, Gangnam, Seoul Station, Bundang, Daegu, and Ilsan. Last year alone, 5% of domestic births were born through a fertility center in a car hospital.
Jamsil Cha Hospital is expected to bring about a breakthrough in infertility treatment by having an IVF (In vitro Baby Center) and an IVM center together. IVM is the world's first technology developed by Cha Kyung-ryul's research team in 1989, and it received great attention by breaking the academic opinion that immature eggs cannot become fetuses.
With this technology, Cha Hospital received the best thesis award at the American Reproductive Medicine Society in 1989 and emerged as a dark horse in the infertility medical world as it was heavily introduced to the cover of TIME, an American weekly magazine, and the BBC. World-class infertility scholars also visited the laboratory of Cha Hospital to learn IVM.
Director Lee Hak-cheon of Jamsil Cha Hospital explained, "In an era when it was considered the norm to inject women with hyperovulation to mature and use eggs, IVMs have broken the framework and common sense of infertility by maturing discarded eggs outside the body and even giving birth." "For 35 years, this technology has been developed in countries around the world and used for women who cannot use hyperovulation drugs or those who want naturalistic procedures without getting injections, and the success rate of pregnancy has increased significantly."
In addition, it is expected that the technology will be further developed at Jamsil Cha Hospital, where medical staff with the highest pregnancy success rate in Korea gather to further expand the choice of procedures for infertile patients," he said.
IVM has previously been used limitedly in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome, where ovaries are likely to become hypervascularized by hyperovulation-induced injections. However, it is applied to patients regardless of the menstrual cycle when freezing eggs for preservation of fertility before receiving chemotherapy, including patients who recently suffer from repeated implantation failures due to poor egg quality and poor fertilized eggs due to development of culture technology and cutting-edge equipment.
Director Lee Hak-cheon said, `IVM will be the hope of numerous infertile couples as it can reduce the medical side effects and cost burden caused by hyperovulation, and there is no difference in the health of babies compared to natural pregnancy or general IVF.'
The success rate of pregnancy is also increasing as many infertility scholars and IVF centers around the world are introducing and studying this technology, and in 2022, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine also recognized IVM technology as a new fertility treatment method.
Meanwhile, the top medical staff of the Cha Hospital Infertility Center gathered at the Jamsil Cha Hospital Infertility Center, which began treatment on April 15.
Professor Lee Hak-cheon, an authority on treatment of aged and habitual miscarriage, IVM treatment, and Professor Choi Dong-hee, who gave birth to more than 15,000 new lives called `Samshin Grandma', Professor Shin Ji-eun, who has a high pregnancy success rate with pre-implantation genetic tests and advanced procedures, Professor Won Young-bin, who specializes in treating polycystic ovarian syndrome and repeated implantation failures, Professor Choi Seung-young, who specializes in preservation of fertility and customized treatment for each patient, and Professor Park Ji-eun, who specializes in reducing ovarian function and preserving fertility. In addition, the fertility laboratory, which is responsible for increasing the success rate of pregnancy, is also continuing the world's highest pregnancy success rate with more than 20 years of veteran researchers working with professors.
Cha Hospital, which celebrated its 64th anniversary this year, became the world's first to succeed in conceiving and giving birth to immature eggs in 1989, and developed a vitrified egg freezing method (egg rapid freezing) in 1998 to succeed in pregnancy and childbirth. Based on this, the world's first egg bank was established in 1999 and attracted attention.
The World Society of Reproductive Medicine, which was negative for egg banks, also began to develop rapidly after quoting the American Reproductive Medicine Society in Hawaii in 2014 that egg banks are no longer an experimental stage and are recommended for preserving fertility. Cha Hospital operates 27 fertility centers in Australia, including six institutions in Korea, including Jamsil, Gangnam, Seoul Station, Bundang, Daegu, and Ilsan. Last year alone, 5% of domestic births were born through a fertility center in a car hospital.
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