Blastocyst Culturing - Know About This IVF Treatment!

The extended period for the culture allows the embryologist to segregate the viable embryos that are the most suitable for pregnancy. For example, in case all five eggs get fertilised to form the embryo and all of them exist in the same healthy condition even 3 days after the fertilization, it will be difficult to identify which one will develop into a successful pregnancy. But an extended culture may exclude those fertilised embryos that do not survive after 3 days of culture. Only a single embryo may survive till day 5 and that can be established in the uterine cavity with certainty.

The extended culture period may have one particular disadvantage and that is the exclusion of all the embryos for transfer and implant in the uterus. This occurs because by day 5, the embryos that do not survive are excluded. So, there is a chance that all the embryos may not survive till advanced stages. Another demerit of blastocyst culture is that it does away with the possibility of other embryos to be cryopreserved for later implant.

Blastocyst culture is usually done for women who have had failed IVF pregnancy before. That might have happened because the embryos were no more viable 2-3 days after fertilisation. Another reason which makes women opt for a blastocyst culture is that the procedure enables the embryologist and the couple to save embryos for future implantation and pregnancy.

Blastocyst culture is a stage in IVF treatment wherein after fertilisation of the eggs with the sperms, the embryo is observed in the laboratory culture for about 2-3 days. This stage is known as blastocyst culture after which the blastocyst or the embryo, cultured for 2-3 days, is implanted.