Blastocyst Culture - Hope Or Hype?

Blastocyst Culture can improve the outcome from IVF. It extends the embryo culture to five or six days, rather than providing extension by two or three days in case of conventional IVF process. These additional days allow certain embryos to make sufficient progress and develop towards the formation of a blastocyst.

All those couples who have at least 3 embryos to fertilize, happen to be the ideal candidates for undergoing this procedure.

There is no guarantee that one healthy blastocyst will always exist once the embryologist is through with the process of culture. There is every possibility that none of the group of embryos makes it to the stage of a blastocyst.

Blastocyst Culture can only be appropriate for all those people, who plan to undergo the frozen embryo transfer cycle by making use of the embryos, which were frozen during previous cycles. So, keeping in mind certain restrictions applicable for people, who can undergo this procedure for getting the desired result, we have the say that Blastocyst Culture involves more of a Hype.