Dr Michelle Bailey
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Dr Michelle BaileyFertility Associates
St Georges Hospital
Christchurch
8:30 - 9:25 WS #65: How to Achieve Better Fertility - An Interactive Session
9:35 - 10:30 WS #75: How to Achieve Better Fertility - An Interactive Session
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Dr Michelle BaileyFertility Associates Christchurch
MBChB, FRANZCOG, CREI
How to Achieve Better
Fertility
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What Will We Cover Today ?
• What can your patients do to
achieve better fertility
• What you can do to help your
patients achieve better fertility
• What we can we do to help your
patients
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What Patients Can Do To
Achieve Better Fertility ?
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Female Age
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Female Age
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W O M E N A N D F E R T I L I T Y
The ferti l i ty fade
Egg QuantityFertilty Decline
B ir t h
P u b e r t y
M o s t f e r t i le
Fe r t i l i t y d e c l in eM e n o p a u s e
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Egg Quality
• Increased Chromosomal Errors
• Mitochondrial aging
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• Insert slide about age and aneuploidies
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• A 46yo woman is having treatment with an egg
donor. She is healthy. The donor is aged 25 years.
What are the chances of success
• A 25% of the chance of the egg donor
• B 50% of the chance of the egg donor
• C 75% of the chance of the egg donor
• D Same chance as the egg donor
• E No chance
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What You Can Do To Address The Effect Of Age
On Fertility ?
• Talk to your female patients early in their lives
about their Family Planning Goals
– Plan for their last child, not first
• Ask them if they would consider fertility
treatment if needed
• Consider assessing ovarian reserve
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Will a Poor Lifestyle Make you Infertile?
A It is vital to improve lifestyle
factors to help fertility
B Probably it does to some extent
C Probably it doesn’t
D We have not evidence to suggest
this
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Female Weight
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Female Weight
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• See if can find bmi and age data from asrm
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Diet
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Exercise
• Moderate exercise is advised
• Get started on it before pregnancy as
generally not advised to start exercising in
pregnancy if not used to it
• Make sure not overexercising
– Eating enough to cover exercise
– Not got an eating disorder
– Some women may be genetically predisposed to
hypothalamic suppression
– Can effect quality of ovulation
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What You Can Do To Address The Effect Of
Weight and Diet On Fertility • Try to encourage patients to optomise their
health and weight as much as realistically
possible
• Ideally do this long before trying to conceive
as may delay fertility treatments otherwise
• Encourage them to look at diet composition
• Try to assist very young patients from
becoming morbidly obese
• ??Consider bariatric surgery if they have the
means and other comorbidity
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Female Smoking • Toxins found in ovarian follicular fluid
• Menopause up to 4 years earlier
• Increased time to conceive - dose response
• Increased miscarriage/ectopic
• Damages gonads of foetuses
• Reversible in 1 year
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Male Smoking
• Increase in childhood cancers if dad smokes
• Increase in Sperm DNA damage
• Dose dependant decrease in semen quality in men
who smoke:
– 23% red sperm concentration
– 13% red sperm motility
• But no clear link to infertility
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Alcohol
• Is a recognised teratogen – unknown safe
level in pregnancy
• Moderate/heavy female drinkers take longer
to conceive and are more likely to undergo an
infertility evaluation
• Women who drink more than 4 drinks/week
had a 16% lower chance of a live birth
• Males drinking > 20/wk have a reduced
number of pregnancies
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Caffiene• Most popular pharmacologically active
substance consumed- Often perceived as an
unhealthy habit
• Typical’ caffeine consumption does not
appear to be associated with:
– inability to conceive
– adverse reproductive outcomes such as
congenital abnormalities, miscarriage, growth
restriction, preterm birth
• Fertility outcomes unchanged by up to 200
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How much is 200 mg of Caffiene ?
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Herbs and Complementary Care
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Stress • No clinical trial has demonstrated definitively
that reducing stress prior to infertility
treatment improves pregnancy rates
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Pollution/Toxins
• Still a new field of research in fertility
medicine
• Heat
• Wifi
• Heavy metals
• Air pollution
• Endocrine disruptors
– Pthalates
– Bisphenols
– Exogenous hormones
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What Can You do to Help Your Patients ?
• Correctly establish onset of infertility
• Give them the correct information about
normal fertility, and also when they may have
sub-fertility
• Give them the correct pre-conceptual advice
• Consider assessing Ovarian Reserve for
women in late 20’s or early 30’s or refer for
this
• Look for Red Flags for early referral
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• What is the average time it takes for
fertility to return after stopping the
COCP?
• A 1 month
• B 3 months
• C 6 months
• D up to 1 year
• E 24 - 48 hours
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Onset of Infertility
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Time to Conceive
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Basic Housekeeping – Women
• Take folic acid (minimum 800mcg), and use
higher does if overweight or past or family
risk of neural tube defects
– Higher dose if on anti-seizure meds and ?
Antidepressants
• Make sure Smear and STI screen is up to
date
• Check basic antenatal bloods
• Make sure vaccinations are up to date
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Basic Housekeeping – Men
• Loose underwear
• Reduce testis heating
• Avoid prolonged use of lap top computers
• Avoid close use of WiFi
• Regular ejaculation
• If want to take a supplement- use an
antioxidant
• Avoid testosterone
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Have Regular Intercourse
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Correctly Timed Intercourse
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Fertile Time of Cycle ?
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Changes in cervical mucus
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Ask About Gynaecology Symptoms
• Endometriosis
• PID
• PCOS
• Fibroids
• Cervical surgery
• Uterine surgery including TOP
• Recurrent Miscarriage
• Pelvic surgery
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Ask about Premature Menopause
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Change in cycle before menopause
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Consider Assessing Ovarian Reserve
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The Red Flags – refer early • Female age
• Previous cancer treatment
• Infrequent periods
• Significant Gynae/Urology history
• Risk factors for tubal/pelvic adhesions
• Family history of early menopause
• Genetic conditions
• Recurrent miscarriage
• Problems having sex
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When to Refer ?
BUT In the presence of negative
prognostic factors couples or if woman
is >35 yrs old, should be offered
referral for specialist assessment after
6 months of unprotected intercourse
Couples who have not conceived after
12 months of unprotected intercourse
should be offered referral for specialist
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Referral - If Patients Are Not Quite Ready To See a Dr
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Referral • Refer themselves to FAC – will pay for
consult, may be eligible for funded treatment
• Private referral – patients will pay for consult,
may be eligible for funded treatment
• Public referral
– Referral to FAC, funded from MOH for First
Specialist Assessment (wait 4 months)
– Referral to Christchurch Womens Hospital fertility
clinic (wait approx. 4 months, can vary a bit)
– May be eligible for funded treatment
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Funded FSA – eligibility criteria
• > 1 year fertility delay (CWH sl diff)
• Both NZ residency or suitable visa
• Female non smoker
• Female under 40 years old
• < 2 children - 12 years or under
• BMI criteria – currently 35 at FAC
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What Services are offered at CWH and FAC
Services CWH FAC
FSA FSA
SIS SIS (public if FSA appt)
SA ( SCL) SA (SCL or FAC)
Surgery Surgery (private or refer
CWH)
Cycle monitoring Cycle monitoring
IUI
IVF/ICSI
PGD/PGS
Donor sperm/egg/embryo
Surrogacy
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Funded Fertility Treatment - CPAC• FSA eligibility doesn’t mean funded treatment
treatment
• Threshold is 65 points
• Criteria
• Duration of delay – up to 5 yrs max points
• BMI 32 or less, < 40, Non smoker
• Causes of infertility are assessed – endo,
ovulation, sperm, tubal, other
• If sterility is iatrogenic
• If have a child < 12 yrs
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So which tests do you need to perform and why?
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GP Investigations - Female
• Antenatal bloods
• If irregular cycles – Testo, SHBG, 17-OH prog
• Baseline FSH, E2 (LH and Prog)
• Luteal prog
• Smear,swabs
• ? AMH
• USS – SIS or
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GP Investigations – Male • Hep B,C,HIV
• Semen analysis – if abnormal, repeat
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So … What happens Next?
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One of a few roads to take ...
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Intrauterine insemination
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Egg Freezing – social or medical
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• E G G F R E E Z I N G
• Studies demonstrate how many eggs are required per baby
(50% chance)
How many eggs do I need?
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2 5 - 3 7 Y E A R S
10 eggs3 8 - 4 0 Y E A R S
15 eggs4 1 - 4 2 Y E A R S
25 eggs
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Avoid depot provera
Family Planning-Plan for your last child
Have regular unprotected sex
Make sensible lifestyle choices
Assess risk factors & timely referral
Consider Egg freezing
Take home messages
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www.fertilityassociates.co.nz
www.yourfertility.org.au
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Semen Analysis
• 2-3 days abstinence
• Sample to lab within 60mins
• WHO Criteria (2010)
– Concentration > 15 Million/ml
– Motility > 40%
– Morphology > 4% normal
• IF ABNORMAL REPEAT
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Referral Pathway
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Female Age
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Bariatric Surgery
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Metformin
• Use if T2DM or IGT
• Consider if want weight loss and fertility
• Can use for PCOS, but can take a number of
months to work
– If not having menses – unlikely to be working, also
no endometrial protection
• May increase sensitivity to OI meds
• Side - effects can limit use - start slowly
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So … What happens next?
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Specialist tests for male infertility
• Semen analysis at FAC – antibodies, morph
• Swabs/urine for STIs
• If azoospermic/severe oligospermia
– FSH, LH, testosterone (prolactin, TSH)
– Genetic tests (specialist level)
• Scrotal USS
– Masses
– Varicocoeles
– Testis volume, vas present