10 hopeful cases of people with problems to conceive

Advances in assisted reproduction, together with pharmacological and assisted therapies, have managed to provide solutions to problems that make natural conception difficult, and in some cases impossible. To demonstrate this, Dr. Enrique Pérez de la Blanca Cobos, head of the Assisted Reproduction Unit at Hospital Quirónsalud Málaga, tells us ten examples of how reproductive medicine has made possible what seemed unattainable.

10 examples of solutions to cases with conception problems

  1. A patient with polycystic ovary syndrome who could not ovulate managed to have a child after her gynecologist prescribed a diet and medication that boosted her ovulation.
  2. A woman who, after having suffered four miscarriages in a row, was diagnosed by her gynecologist as having a septum in her uterus, underwent a small operation that solved the malformation and allowed her to have a daughter, now three years old, and to become pregnant again, while waiting for a boy.
  3. A woman with appendicitis complicated with severe peritonitis that resulted in obstruction of the fallopian tubes, will be able to have her baby through in vitro fertilization whenever she wishes.
  4. A woman lacked a uterus due to a congenital disease and they went to a clinic in a country where it is legal for another woman to gestate the embryos of others voluntarily.
  5. A couple of girls have been able to raise a baby thanks to a sperm bank.
  6. A young man suffering from leukemia lost his sperm forever due to chemotherapy; thanks to his oncologist’s advice to preserve frozen samples of his sperm, he will be able to become a father whenever he wishes.
  7. Women whose working lives prevent them from becoming mothers when their biology is more favorable to them can postpone childbearing by preserving vitrified eggs.
  8. A man with two children from his previous partner had a vasectomy, but now wishes to have another child in a new relationship. He is considering surgery to repermeabilize his vas deferens or to obtain sperm by testicular biopsy.
  9. In one couple, both were carriers of cystic fibrosis, so there was a good chance that if she became pregnant by traditional means, the child would be born sick. They resorted to in vitro fertilization, selecting healthy embryos.
  10. A paraplegic university professor with a severe erection problem underwent electrical stimulation treatment in order to obtain his sperm and have a child with his wife.