Center for Assisted Reproduction Is First in Southwest to Offer Pioneering Test of a Woman’s Biological Clock
(cz) The Center for Assisted Reproduction (CAR) today announced it will be the first IVF center in the southwest to offer the Repromedix’s Plan Ahead™ test, an innovative blood test that provides an assessment of a woman’s egg supply by combining multiple factors including the measurement of ovary-related hormones AMH, Inhibin B, and FSH. The window of opportunity for a woman to have children by natural conception is dependent upon an adequate supply of eggs which inevitably declines as a woman ages and her “biological clock ticks.” Plan Ahead enables a woman to compare her estimated egg supply with the normal range expected for women of the same age. In addition, the Plan Ahead Report provides valuable directional information for women planning to have children after their late twenties.
“The Center for Assisted Reproduction has been a pioneer of cutting edge assisted reproductive technologies,” said Kathleen Doody, MD, co-founder of CAR with her husband Kevin Doody, MD. “CAR was the first IVF center nationwide to implement extended embryo culture (blastocyst culture) for all of its IVF patients and we had the first intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). So being the first in the Southwest to offer the Plan Ahead test aligns perfectly with our mission.” more…
From: »Marketwire« (Press Release)