Fertility medicine

• difficulty in conceiving a child;
• difficulty in carrying a pregnancy to term (polyabortion);
• fertility preservation;
• embryo genetic investigation in case of genetic diseases;
• sperm bank for heterologous treatments.

The specialty treated within the Cantonal Fertility Center EOC.

The Cantonal Fertility Center EOC's primary goal is to ensure the highest medical standards in the field of reproductive medicine as well as to create an atmosphere that allows couples to feel as comfortable as possible. This is done through a medical and psychological journey that is based on "good medicine" based on medical evidence.

Accompanying step by step couples who experience difficulties in conceiving a child or polyabortion-an experience that creates great psychophysical stress-accurate guidance is offered on the alternatives and possibilities that reproductive medicine can offer today.

Diagnosis

Analyses aimed at investigatingfemale infertility include:

• ovulatory ultrasound checks;
• hormonal checks and ovarian stimulation;
• sonohysterosalpingography, laparoscopy and tubal patency check;
• hysteroscopy of the uterine cavity.
  

Male examinations include:

• spermiogram (complete seminal fluid analysis);
• hormone checks;
• andrological evaluation and examination.

Treatments

What is the best approach to increase the chances of pregnancy and thus the most appropriate medical treatment is not a schematic choice, but rather the analysis and summation of different variables.

Based on the results of the analysis, physicians will propose to the couple the most appropriate course of action for them among several possible options.

• Support for natural conception: through ultrasound checks on the woman's cycle, the arrival of a pregnancy is facilitated by identifying the most appropriate time for sexual intercourse.
• Inseminations:
  • if the spermiogram shows a decrease in sperm quality,intrauterine insemination is opted for;
  • for couples in whom the male partner is infertile due to a lack of sperm or a severely altered quality of semen parameters,heterologous insemination, that is, through sperm donation, is possible.
• IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) and ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm Injection):
  • Natural IVF or ICSI: In vitro fertilization occurs on a natural cycle (not stimulated with medication) or with very mild stimulation;
  • IVFor classical ICSI: in vitro fertilization occurs following treatment that allows the woman to develop within the same cycle a higher number of follicles through hormonal stimulation.

Rate Schedule

This document informs about the current rates.

Informational brochure

You can learn more about all aspects of the treatments and procedures offered within the Cantonal Fertility Center EOC by downloading the information brochure.

Federal reproductive medicine law

At the Cantonal Fertility Center EOC all procedures and treatments related to reproductive medicine are performed, regulated and allowed according to the relevant Federal Law.