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Dr. Dimitrios Minaretzis is a highly specialized Obstetrician-Gynecologist with extensive experience in Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. A graduate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Dr. Minaretzis completed his PhD in endometrial pathology and a post-doctoral fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Harvard Medical School. He is the Clinical Director of the Obstetrics & Gynecology and ART department at MATERNITY-HEALTH in Athens, Greece, and specializes in infertility treatments, assisted reproduction techniques, and reproductive surgery.
Dr Dimitrios Minaretzis graduated from the Medical School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and after obligatory military service, obtained a specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology at “Alexandra” Maternity Hospital, NKUA. He got his PhD in Proteins expression in normal, hyperplastic, atypical and malignant endometrium from the Pathology Department of NKUA and
he continued with a postdoctoral fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. The Boston IVF Clinic was affiliated and involved with the fellowship.
After completing the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship, he was elected as a Lecturer at “Alexandra” Maternity Hospital, NKUA, 1999-2002.
Dr Dimitrios Minaretzis, as the founder and the scientific director of the Assisted Reproduction Department of Maternity–Health Women’s Clinic has spent more than 25 years performing treatment for Infertility, helping couples and individuals to succeed in their reproductive needs.
Dr Minaretzis has many scientific presentations in medical workshops and Conferences and publications in peer-reviewed medical Journals. The most significant publications can be seen at Pubmed (under the author’s name Minaretzis D).
Ahead of conventional research, as we presented at ESHRE 20th Annual Meeting, Berlin, 2004, we implemented for the first time a novel strategy to improve implantation rates in cases with repeated implantation failures with good quality embryos, by freezing all embryos and transferring them in a subsequent artificial cycle, with negative timing synchronization.
At MATERNITY-HEALTH, the Department of Medically Assisted Reproduction and the Cryopreservation Bank have been ISO EN 15224:2017 certified by TUV Hellas and have been licensed by the National Authority Medically Assisted Reproduction.
In our times, women can “freeze their reproductive age”. They can freeze their eggs to use them later in their life in an ICSI attempt. The expected pregnancy rates are those relative to their age at the time of egg freezing.
The procedure is similar to a cycle of IVF/ICSI.
Aiming to freeze as many mature eggs as possible at the oocyte collection, we observe the egg maturation status after their retrieval. To begin with, we freeze the mature (metaphase II) eggs with vitrification. In the case of immature eggs, we reexamine their maturation status at later time intervals until the next day and we proceed to freeze the oocytes that become mature.
Egg freezing can be done for social and medical reasons, such as in cancer cases before chemotherapy or premature ovarian insufficiency.
From 3000€
On the first visit, after a thorough evaluation of all available medical data, we decide on the ovarian stimulation protocol that is best for the woman/couple. Ιt is a critical decision-making process since the most important step for IVF/ICSI is to attain a higher number of oocytes with the best nuclear and cytoplasmic maturity. This will also facilitate the fertilization process and influence the embryo quality.
For egg fertilization either we mix the eggs and sperm to interact alone (IVF) or inject the best available sperm directly into the egg’s cytoplasm (ICSI). This later assisted fertilization technique applies in cases with moderate and severe male factors, advanced maternal age, failed or low fertilization with IVF, few eggs at oocyte retrieval and unexplained infertility.
Embryo transfer is performed under continuous U/S guidance to confirm that the embryos are released in the endometrial cavity. The day of transfer can span from 2 to 5 days after fertilization. The day, the number and the choice of the best available embryos to be transferred involve complex decision-making. Factors that are considered are the maternal age, embryo quality, day of transfer, surplus embryos for additional freezing, previous failed attempts, concerns and preferences of the woman/couple.
From 4000€
Donation of gametes is a highly successful intervention in cases of premature menopause, ovarian insufficiency and women with advanced reproductive age. In Greece, egg donation can be performed up to the maternal age of 50 and under certain conditions up to 54.
Donations can involve either frozen eggs received from international egg banks or local donors with fresh or frozen eggs. The donation procedure is under strict legal control from the National Authority of Medically Assisted Reproduction. All donors follow the Greek and European Community obligatory tests.
In donation cycles the same principles as for classical IVF/ICSI cycles are followed. After the embryo transfer of 2 embryos, in most cases, we have also succeeded in having frozen embryos available for a second embryo transfer. That can further increase the cumulative pregnancy rate.
With egg donation, the expected pregnancy rate is high, estimated at about 70%, which is the pregnancy rate all women have if they undergo IVF/ICSI at ages lower than 35 years old and even better when lower than 30 years. Those are the ages of the women who donate their eggs.
From 7000€
On the first visit, after a thorough evaluation of all available medical data, we decide on the ovarian stimulation protocol that is best for the woman/couple. Ιt is a critical decision-making process since the most important step for IVF/ICSI is to attain a higher number of oocytes with the best nuclear and cytoplasmic maturity. This will also facilitate the fertilization process and influence the embryo quality.
For egg fertilization either we mix the eggs and sperm to interact alone (IVF) or inject the best available sperm directly into the egg’s cytoplasm (ICSI). This later assisted fertilization technique applies in cases with moderate and severe male factors, advanced maternal age, failed or low fertilization with IVF, few eggs at oocyte retrieval and unexplained infertility.
Embryo transfer is performed under continuous U/S guidance to confirm that the embryos are released in the endometrial cavity. The day of transfer can span from 2 to 5 days after fertilization. The day, the number and the choice of the best available embryos to be transferred involve complex decision-making. Factors that are considered are the maternal age, embryo quality, day of transfer, surplus embryos for additional freezing, previous failed attempts, concerns and preferences of the woman/couple.
From 4000€
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