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Pacific Fertility Center

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Last Update: 04/30/2020

Description

Pacific Fertility Center (PFC) is a fertility clinic located in San Francisco and belongs to Prelude Fertility- a network of fertility clinics in the U.S.

Its multidisciplinary staff consists of fertility specialists, embryologists, IVF coordinators, therapists, and nurses.

Pacific Fertility Center also provides fertility care for international patients. Thus, patient assistance is available both in English and Chinese.

Apart from that, the center has its own IVF laboratory and offer financing programs. They also offer a free 30-minute telephone consultation to evaluate medical history, possible treatment options, and resolve any doubts.

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

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Available treatments

Embryo cryopreservation
Fertility preservation
Frozen Embryo Transfer
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
IVF with Donor Eggs
IVF with Donor Sperm
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Reciprocal IVF

PFC also offers the possibility of surrogacy, since the country's legislation contemplates this technique.

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 treatments

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

Diagnostic treatments

At Pacific Fertility Center, it is also possible to perform the following diagnostic tests on men and women to find out the reason for infertility and establish the most appropriate treatment:

  • Male Testing such as semen analysis.
  • Female Testing such as Ovarian Reserve Testing.
  • Hormonal Studies.
  • Sono-Hysterogram or Hysteroscopy.
  • Genetic testing.
  • Treatment for PCOS, hydrosalpinx, tubal disorders and endometriosis.

However, all this information could not be 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 PFC in a year.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Eggs: 155 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Eggs: 620 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%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
25%*
* Percentage extracted from 8 cases only
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
22,2%*
* Percentage extracted from 9 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
40%*
* Percentage extracted from 5 cases only

Cycles with Frozen Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
60,7%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
64,4%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
57,6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
56,6%
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
47,5%

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 PFC.

More information
Total cycles with Fresh Eggs: 2 per year
Total cycles with Frozen Eggs: 288 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
50%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only
Frozen Embryo Transfer
51,5%

Reviews

The patient's reviews on Pacific Fertility Center on Google Business are mostly positive. However, Emily is the only user that has commented on her positive experience in detail. She underwent egg freezing. While it was up to the nurses who took care of her anxieties, the doctors still did a good job at the egg retrieval. What she also considered positive is the extra class patients go through in terms of self-injections.

However, there is also a negative comment from Catherine. She got several eggs from her retrieval, but also suffered from ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Medical team

Joseph Conaghan, PhD
Joseph Conaghan, PhD
Embryologist
Laboratory Director
Philip E. Chenette, M.D.
Philip E. Chenette, M.D.
Fertility Specialist
Medical Director
Carolyn R. Givens, M.D.
Carolyn R. Givens, M.D.
Fertility Specialist
Carl M. Herbert, M.D.
Carl M. Herbert, M.D.
Fertility Specialist
Liyun Li, M.D.
Liyun Li, M.D.
Fertility Specialist
Isabelle P. Ryan, M.D.
Isabelle P. Ryan, M.D.
Fertility Specialist
Eldon D. Schriock, M.D.
Eldon D. Schriock, M.D.
Fertility Specialist

Location: how to get there?

Pacific Fertility Center is located in San Francisco. The nearest airport is Airport San Francisco and only a 25 minutes drive from the clinic via US-101 N.

Additionally, you can also get there by train lines 292 or 397. However, a change has to be made and you have to continue by bus line L-OWL Direction Jone&Beach. It will take you approximately 1.21 hours.

Last Update: 04/30/2020