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- Is serum AMH a pregnancy predictor?
This study reiterated an already established fact that serum AMH test is a useful predictor of a woman’s egg reserve but not an absolute predictor of whether she will get pregnant or not either spontaneously or following IVF treatment. Therefore, a low AMH result should not be used as an absolute cut off point when deciding to treat an infertile woman with IVF.
Likewise it is also well established that AMH result cannot predict the quality… of a woman’s egg. This can be ascertained by PGS (Preimplantation Genetic Screening), (a special genetic screening test available at Fertility Assyst) to detect chromosomal disorders or aneuploidy before implantation. This test is advised for those with multiple implantation/IVF failures, known couple with familial genetic aberrations or diseases, autosomal recessive diseases like sickle cell disease among others.
At Fertility Assyst, serum AMH is done routinely to assess a woman’s egg reserve (as part of our initial fertility assessments before treatment). If it depicts a low egg reserve for a woman we do not automatically advise egg donation as the only way out before IVF; she will be given the chance to try with her own eggs (if she so desire), with or without a backup donor treatment cycle.