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Baby hospital hits landmark in IVF
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A LOCAL maternity hospital is claiming to have achieved the first successful pregnancy in China using a new in vitro fertilization procedure called karyomapping.
The technique, which allows doctors to select embryos that are free from dangerous genetic mutations carried by one or both parents, was employed at Fudan University’s Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital, and on Friday resulted in the delivery of a healthy baby boy, officials said.
The parents, who asked not to be named, live in east China’s Jiangsu Province, and had sought IVF treatment in Shanghai after being told they were both carriers of a rare genetic disorder — congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The condition can affect the development of primary and secondary sex characteristics.
The couple, both of whom are in their 30s, have an 8-year-old daughter who has the condition, but was born before the parents knew they were carriers.
After two failed attempts since then to have a “healthy” child, the couple contacted the Shanghai hospital and were told of the new IVF procedure, which was developed by scientists in the United Kingdom in late 2014.
At the Fudan University hospital, doctors used the karyomapping technology to identify an embryo — from four possibles — that was not carrying the genetic mutation, and this was implanted into the mother.
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