Assisted Reproductive Services

The Rush-Copley Center for Reproductive Health offers couples the latest in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Our approach is to avoid excessive and invasive procedures in favor of drug therapies and artificial insemination. This approach results is a success rate in producing pregnancies through artificial insemination that is higher than the average reported success rate. Only about one third of our patients ever need invitro fertilization procedures. We also offer:

ZIFT (zygote intrafallopian transfer) - is performed in an operating room using laparoscopic techniques. The zygote, a fertilized egg, is placed in the woman's fallopian tube, through which it travels to the uterus.

TET (Tubal embryo transfer) - This procedure is similar to ZIFT, the health specialists wait until the fertilized egg cells begin to divide into several cells, forming an embryo. The embryo is placed in the fallopian tube.

ET (Embryo transfer) - another form of invitro variation and is used when a woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. In an outpatient procedure, the embryo is transferred directly to a woman's uterus via a catheter placed through her cervix.