Hi!
The biggest factor in IVF success is egg quality (not embryo quality) and the biggest factor in egg quality is mom's age. There are other factors in both.
As you are probably aware, PGD is a procedure in which one cell is taken from an early embryo and genetic testing is performed. This can be useful in deciding which embryo/embryos to transfer and how many to transfer. If you are a "good responder" and get lots of eggs that fertilize and become lots of embryos, PGD can be useful in deciding which embryos to transfer. Removing one cell does not seem to drastically reduce the success rate, and it can prevent children with birth defects, as well as multiple fruitless transfers.
On the other hand, it can cause loss of embryo/s or damage them.Also, results from the PGD are not a total guarantee. If you only have a few embryos, and are going to transfer all of them anyway you may not want to go with PGD.
Finally, if you do PGD and find that a very high percentage of embryos are abnormal, it could help you decide whether to pursue egg donation.
I hope this helps!
Good luck!
Dr B
Thank you very much for your response Doctor Brown. I will wait to see how many embryos we'll end up with but if there are only a few, I will not go for PGD. Should I ask the clinic to test the egg quaility only? I normally have around 12 eggs after stimulation.
Kind regards,
Andi