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Infertility Center of St. Louis

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Last Update: 04/12/2022

Description

Infertility Center of St. Louis is a fertility clinic located in Chesterfield, Missouri.

This center offers the regular fertility treatements, surgeries, fertility preservation and techniques to help you on your way to parenthood.

In addition, this clinic also specialises in difficult to treat cases and cases which have not been successful in previous attempts. Furthermore, they specialize in treating older women, low hormone IVF, and treating those with a reduced ovarian reserve.

However, all this information could not be verified by the inviTRA specialists.

If you want to know how to get to the clinic, click here.

Fertility treatments

Below, you'll find a table with all fertility treatments offered by the Infertility Center of St. Louis:

Embryo cryopreservation
Fertility preservation
Frozen Embryo Transfer
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IVF with Donor Egg & Donor Sperm
IVF with Donor Eggs
IVF with Donor Sperm
Low medication IVF
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Reciprocal IVF
Sperm freezing

Furthermore, this center also provides surrogacy since the country's legislation allows this treatment.

Complementary techniques

In addition to the treatments indicated, the Infertility Center of St. Louis has a multitude of complementary techniques that allow them to personalize fertility treatments and try to maximize the chances of pregnancy:

If you're still unsure which fertility treatment is right for you and would like to know more about it, we suggest you read here: Fertility Treatment Overview.

In assisted reproduction, like any medical treatment, it is necessary for you to trust the professionalism of the doctors and the clinic you choose.

This Tool generates you a personalized report with all information necessary about the treatment you will need. Besides, there is a list of clinics in your area which we have chosen based on our selection criteria with their budget plan included. Last but not least, you will find a series of useful tips for your first clinic visit.

Diagnostic tests

Establishing the correct treatment plan to follow is paramount to any successful assisted reproductive technique. Therefore, the Infertility Center of St Louis provides the following tests:

  • Female Fertility Testing.
  • Male Fertility Testing.

In addition to all the treatments indicated in the previous section, the Infertility Center of St. Louis has the necessary technology to perform the following complementary techniques to increase the possibilities of success of the treatments as well as to establish the most appropriate treatment:

However, all this information has not been verified by the inviTRA specialists.

Success rates

This data has been collected by the American CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the year 2016. Directly comparing pregnancy rates between different clinics can lead to mistakes.

IVF/ICSI

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

The CDC stipulates both the total number of cycles realized per clinic in general and number of cycles performed by the patient's age group: under 35 years, between 35-37 years, between 38-40 years, between 41-42 years and above 43 years.

This is the total number of performed cycles by Infertility Center of St. Louis in a year.

More information
Cycles with fresh eggs: 129 per year
Cycles with frozen eggs: 353 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Cycles with Fresh Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
50,8%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
40%*
* Percentage extracted from 15 cases
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
30%*
* Percentage extracted from 8 cases
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
20%*
* Percentage extracted from 5 cases
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
0%*
* Percentage extracted from 5 cases

Cycles with Frozen Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
48,6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
51%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
45,6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
50%*
* Percentage extracted from 14 cases
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
18,6%

IVF with egg donation

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

In regards to egg donation cycles, these are the ranges of annual cycles carried out by Infertility Center of St. Louis.

More information
Total cycles with fresh embryos: 0 per year
Total cycles with frozen embryos: 38 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Frozen embryo transfer
54,5%

Medical team

Dr. Sherman J. Silber
Dr. Sherman J. Silber
Director
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr Michael DeRosa
Dr Michael DeRosa
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Caiyun Liao
Dr. Caiyun Liao
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Yutin Fan
Dr. Yutin Fan
Reproductive Endocrinologist

Reviews

The reviews for the Infertility Center of St.Louis found on the internet are mostly positive with some negative comments. In the following section, we are going to list some of these on Google Reviews.

On the positive side we see that the patient Liz speaks very highly of Dr Silber and his team, and achieved pregnancy at the age of 41. Meg mentions that despite her challenges, she is very happy with the monitoring, adaptation and individualization of the treatment she recieved. Daniel comments that he has had a successful vasectomy reversal at this clinic.

On the negative side, Ali was unhappy about the intitial service and poor scheduling of appointments that he feels wasted his time.

If you would like to tell us about your experience with the Infertility Center of St. Louis, whether it was positive or negative, we encourage you to do so in our comment section.

Location: how to get to the clinic?

The Infertility Center of St Louis is located within St. Lukes Hospital. This can be reached by car on on Highway 141, 1/2 north of the intersection Highway 40 and Interstate 64. There is plenty of parking availble outside the building.

If arriving by train, the nearest station is Gateway station, 5.2 miles away to the west.

The nearest large airport is St. Louis International, which is lcoated 14 miles north of the center, a drive of approximately 20 minutes.

Last Update: 04/12/2022