The success rate of IVF treatment depends on many factors such as age of female partner, ovarian reserve, cause of infertility, past fertility treatment outcomes. It can be reported as pregnancy rate, clinical pregnancy rate or live birth rate. Hence, the IVF success rate may vary from one fertility clinic to another.

IVF or In vitro fertilisation involves controlled ovarian stimulation using fertility injections, follicular tracking, egg collection under sedation, insemination of eggs with sperms and embryo transfer. Depending on treatment plan, it may a take a month or two from start to completion. All patients are seen by fertility specialist before starting IVF.

The advantage of IVF is that it helps couples in achieving pregnancy when they have failed naturally. It also helps same sex couples or single parents. The IVF treatment is rigorous and involves taking fertility stimulation injection and procedures. Patients may suffer side effects from fertility drugs, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome or OHSS and multiple pregnancy.

IVF can be combined with other assisted fertility procedures such as Intracytoplasmic sperm insemination (ICSI) or Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm insemination (IMSI) for male infertility; with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to prevent transmission of single gene disorders; and with preimplantation comprehensive chromosomal screening (CCS or PGS) to prevent chromosomal arrangement disorders.