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Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles

Analyzed by (invitra staff).
Last Update: 07/17/2020

Description

The Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles is a private fertility clinic with offices in Westwood and Glendale. Medical Director of this center is Dr. Vicken Sahakian.

The multidisciplinary staff of the Pacific Fertility Center consists of reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, etc. The clinic also has its own IVF laboratory in order to carry out all treatments directly in the practice.

According to information published on their website, Pacific Fertility Center offers discounts and financing programs in order to help their patients pay their fertility treatments. Furthermore, Pacific Fertility Center also treats both national and international patients. Therefore, the first consultation can be made over Skype and the clinic intends to work with physicians of the patient's area.

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

The fertility treatments performed at the Pacific Fertility Center are listed in the table below.

Embryo Adoption
Frozen Embryo Transfer
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
IVF with Donor Eggs
IVF with Donor Sperm
Low medication IVF
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Pacific Fertility Center also provides gender selection since the country's legislation allows this treatment.

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

The treatment costs may vary significantly depending on the tests or techniques included or not, such as the seminogram, medication, fertility testing, medical visits, prolonged culture or embryo vitrification.

This Tool helps you to find out the exact costs of the different fertility clinics (what's included and what's not) and provides you with lots of useful tips for your first appointment.

Complementary techniques

In addition to all the treatments indicated in the previous section, the Pacific Fertility Center has the necessary technology to perform the following complementary techniques in order to increase the possibilities of success of the treatments:

Diagnostic tests

The following diagnostic tests can also be performed at the Pacific Fertility Center on both men and women to find out the reason for infertility:

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 Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles in a year.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Eggs: 12 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Eggs: 109 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
66.7%*
* Percentage extracted from 3 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
0%*
* Percentage extracted from 1 case only
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
50%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
100%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
50%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only

Cycles with frozen eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
68.6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
67.6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
55.6%*
* Percentage extracted from 9 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
50%*
* Percentage extracted from 4 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
40%*
* Percentage extracted from 5 cases only

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 Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Embryos: 0 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Embryos: 52 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

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

Fresh Embryo Transfer
No data available
Frozen Embryo Transfer
66%

Medical team

Dr. Vicken Sahakian
Dr. Vicken Sahakian
Medical Director
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Michele Evans
Dr. Michele Evans
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Yvonne Yanqing Han
Dr. Yvonne Yanqing Han
IVF Laboratory Director
Biologist
Dr. Ingrid Rodi
Dr. Ingrid Rodi
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Dr. Vicken Sepilian
Dr. Vicken Sepilian
Reproductive Endocrinologist

Reviews

Most of the reviews found on the Internet about the Pacific Fertility Center are positive. In the following section, we are going to show some of them found on Google Business.

According to Michael, for example, Dr. Sahakian is an approachable fertility doctor who is always willing to discuss any questions. Also, patient Damien has made positive experiences with this clinic. He and his partner had only two embryos but pregnancy occurred already after the first embryo transfer. Another patient called Barcley had a successful surrogacy at the Pacific Fertility Center. She appreciated the honesty of the doctor and he also offered to answer any questions regardless of the patient will opt for this clinic or another.

However, there are also negative comments from Nat. The patient was supposed to have a frozen embryo transfer. However, when going to the office, the doctor switched plans without warning. She liked the rest of the staff, though. User Nutrition, on the other hand, was not satisfied with the organization of the center. Despite having paid her fees before, they still sent her two bills for anesthesia and storage.

Location: how to get to the clinic?

As stated above, the Pacific Fertility Center has two locations in the Los Angeles area. In the section below, we will comment on how to get to each one of them.

Westwood Office

This location is situated in 10921 Wilshire Blvd Ste 700 Los Angeles in California 90024.

The nearest airport is Los Angeles International Airport and a 15-minute drive via I-405 N to the clinic.

Glendale Office

The Glendale practice is located in 1808 Verdugo Blvd Ste 404 Glendale in California 91208.

Via I-405 N, the Los Angeles International Airport is approximately 36 minutes away from the clinic.

Last Update: 07/17/2020
3 comments / opinions
    1. Hi, has anyone had a treatment here? How are your impressions? I’m sorting through several options, but I can’t seem to come up with one… I haven’t visited one clinic yet. I’m a mess. Besides, I don’t want to go bancrupt.

      • Hi Snowflake,

        we at inviTRA always recommend going to the first visit in at least 3 different centers to be able to compare. This way you can take with your impressions of the medical team, the facilities, the way of working, etc.

        To do this, I recommend that you go to this tool: Fertility Report. In this way, you will get a list of the clinics that best suit you and that meet our quality criteria. In addition, you will also receive some advice for when it is time to visit the clinics.

        Hope this helps,

        Best regards

    2. Do both of the offices have their own lab??