It is a heterologous fertilisation programme (egg donation and double heterologous fertilisation) that consists of transferring cryopreserved embryos at the blastocyst stage, an advanced technique that provides the greatest probability of achieving a full-term pregnancy.
Our programme guarantees the generation of at least 2 blastocysts.
LEARN MOREThis option became viable again in Italy in 2014, when the Constitutional Court, through sentence 162/2014, declared the ban on heterologous fertilisation imposed by Law 40/2004 to be unconstitutional.
This treatment involves the use of assisted fertilisation techniques, in which gametes (spermatozoa, oocytes or both) are provided by a donor from outside the couple.
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Different-sex couples diagnosed as infertile, who are married or living together, and where the woman is under 50 years of age, may undertake a programme of heterologous fertilisation.
It is only since 2014 that heterologous fertilisation has become legal again, this has meant that the number of donors in Italy is extremely low, making it necessary to resort to tissue centres abroad. The CMR collaborates with leading European centres in this field to overcome the difficulty of finding reproductive cells (oocytes/spermatozoa) properly cryopreserved according to the most modern and efficient techniques.
Strict Italian and European regulations (Legislative Decree 191/07 and Dir. 17/2006 app 3, European Directives no. 2004/23/EC, 2006/17/EC and 2006/86/EC) establish criteria that guarantee full safety in donor selection and the protection of recipients:
One of the most frequent questions we are asked concerns the similarity between parents and child, for which CMR provides partner centres with all the phenotypic characteristics of the couple (ethnicity, blood group, RH factor, height, weight, skin and eye colour, hair type and colour), always in compliance with the aforementioned safety regulations.
Both members of the couple will have to undergo tests to verify their suitability for the procedure.
In recent decades, motherhood has been increasingly postponed, especially in Italy, where the number of women who manage to have a child in the 28-35 age range is decreasing.
This is why an increasing number of couples are resorting to heterologous fertilisation techniques, especially egg donation.
Egg donation is today the assisted fertilisation technique with the highest probability of success, between 60% and 70%. This is because by using a young donor (20-35 years old), the main factor of infertility, which is maternal age, can be overcome.
The CMR, with a view to continuous improvement and in order to guarantee the highest possible quality standards for the specialised healthcare provided, has been applying a quality management system to its healthcare processes since 2011, guaranteed by UNI EN ISO 9001-2015 Certification.
In line with these principles, the clinic has decided to submit the MAR process using donated gametes (heterologous MAR) to the verification of a third-party certification body (CertiqualityMilano) in order to apply the current Italian and European regulations and safety criteria that guarantee the highest possible quality levels for the adopted methods.