Egg Donor Screening Process

The screening of the egg donors that we perform includes the following:

• CBC/hb – Complete blood count/hemoglobin.
• Blood group and Rhesus
• HIV – Human immunodeficiency virus
• HbsAg – Hepatitis B
• VDRL – Syphilis
• HCV – Hepatitis C
• FSH (CD2 – 4)– tests for ovarian reserve
• LH (CD2-4) – Luteinizing hormone
• AMH – Anti Mullerian Hormone.
• Estradiol Level
• TSH – Thyroid stimulating hormone.
• Prolactin –High levels can indicate infertility.
• Pelvic ultrasound for antral follicle count
• Vaginal swab tests for Chlamydia.
• Herpes Virus.
• Cytomegalovirus.

In case parents are willing to have any kind of additional tests performed for the egg donor, we need to have this information in advance.
After the tests are done, we put the egg donors on Birth Control Pills to make sure their cycles are synchronized to embryo recipient cycle, whether the Intended Mother or the surrogate mother. We send the reports to our IVF doctor, who is in primary charge of donor stimulation and to the destination clinic IVF doctor as well, to make sure the medical reports are reviewed and approved by both of the sides.
As soon as we have the confirmation from the doctors that they are happy and accepting the results we are ready to start the stimulation.