PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC SCREENING (PGS) - Gunasheela Hospitals

Gunasheela Fertility Center pioneers birth of India’s first baby through PGS Technology on a Frozen Embryo (in a 24 hour run)

This baby is special, as PGS technology was applied to the frozen embryo and the genetic screening was done in a record turnaround time of 24 hours

Bengaluru, September 28, 2016: Gunasheela Fertility Centre, the Bengaluru-based fertility centre and a wing of Gunasheela Surgical & Maternity Hospital – a pioneer that has introduced several firsts in the field of Infertility, has added another feather to its cap by facilitating the birth of First Baby in India through PGS Technology  on a Frozen Embryo (in a 24 hour run). With this Gunasheela Fertility Center heralds a new wave in parenting and also reiterates its commitment to be at the forefront of introducing innovative technologies.

If for Gunasheela Fertility this was demonstration of its cutting edge parenting technology yet again, for Shilpashree, and married for 19 years this was the moment of reckoning as she became the proud mother of a healthy baby girl weighing 2.52 kgs on September 14, 2016 at 6.02am.  Post delivery both the baby & mother are doing well, and to the satisfaction of medical team and the couple this high risk pregnancy yielded desired results with no major complications right from the conceiving stage to delivery.  

Addressing media at a press conference here today, Dr. Devika Gunasheela, Fertility Specialist & Managing Director, Gunasheela Fertility Centre, said, Shilpashree (38 years old) and Satyanarayan (aged 49 years) visited our facility in 2013 with secondary infertility having had one abortion almost 17 years back. On investigating, our team diagnosed Shilpashree with polycystic ovarian disease and her husband Satyanarayan had low sperm count.  Following this diagnosis, she was advised for IVF / ICSI cycle in 2013 in which she conceived and it was a twin pregnancy.  But unfortunately she had a miscarriage at 5 months of gestation.

Her second IVF / ICSI cycle was in October 2014 in which no fresh transfer was done in view of maternal fever. 

She underwent frozen embryo transfer in January 2015 in which she conceived and had an abortion at 1 ½ months. In view of the advanced age of the couple and severe male infertility factor, the couple was advised to have Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) test, pointed out Dr. Devika. In January 2016, we did PGS on five embryos of which only one embryo was normal which we transferred.  She conceived and it was a high risk pregnancy in view of her advanced age, Lupus Anticoagulant positive, Gestational Diabetes & on insulin; Blood Group Rh factor – negative and Hypothyrodism. Further, Dr. Devika indicated we did shirod cervical ligature because of her previous mid-trimester miscarriages.  

According to Dr. Rajsekhar Nayak, Director, Gunasheela Fertility Centre, “This baby is special, as PGS technology was applied to the frozen embryo and the genetic screening was done in a record turnaround time of 24 hours.  After thawing of an embryo from the frozen state, the embryo can survive only for a very short time outside the body (approximately 24 – 48 hours).  Hence, the process of genetic screening that normally takes approximately 21 days because of its complexity was completed in a rapid time of 24 hours on the Ion Torrent NGS Platform in our in-house Gunasheela Genomics Laboratory.”  We have around 16 PGS pregnancies on the way. 

Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) Facts 

1. PGS can reduce the time to a live birth by selecting only euploid embryos
2. PGS can reduce the incidence of miscarriage
3. Transfer of single euploid embryos gives the maximum chance of a live birth whilst minimizing the risk of a multiple pregnancy
4. PGS is recommended for women above 37 years of age, couples with a family history of chromosome problems, recurrent miscarriages, repeated IVF failures & severe male factor infertility
5. The procedure also goes a long way in reducing the likelihood of miscarriage; decreases the risk of abnormal pregnancy; reducing the amount of time & additional costs inferred with multiple IVF cycles and increases the likelihood of pregnancy with single embryo transfers (eSET).

For more information, contact: 

GUNASHEELA : Basavangudi (Bangalore):

No. 1, Dewan Madhava Road, Opp. M. N. Krishna Rao Park, Basavanagudi, Bangalore - 560 004

GUNASHEELA : Koramangala (Bangalore):

No.365, Sulochana Building, 1st Cross Rd, 3rd Block, Sarjapura Main Road, Koamangala, Bangalore - 560 034

GUNASHEELA : Assisted Reproduction Centre Pvt Ltd., (Mysore) 

No 440, Vishwamanava Double Road, A & B Block, Kuvempunagar, Mysore - 570 023

+91 70222 71000

+91 80 4646 2626

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