Process To Check For Cysts On Ovaries

to the pioneers of IVF.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine this year has been granted to the English biologist Robert G. Edwards. Although the Nobel only granted in life, the award also should be considered for the gynecologist Patrick Steptoe , who died in 1988 and was the associate of Edwards in the implementation of the first IVF cycle in history. The result of that treatment was the birth of the baby Louis Brown on 25 July 1978.
The process was very different from today. Oocyte recovery only (no ovarian stimulation) was not performed by transvaginal puncture since the ultrasound apparatus and then did not allow it through laparoscopy was performed by Dr. Steptoe.
is estimated that since then, more than 4 million children have been born through assisted reproduction treatment. Not only that, these children have grown and have children as their own Louis Brown who gave birth after a pregnancy conceived naturally in 2006.

Dr. Steptoe left together with R. Edwards right