Does PGD guarantee a successful IVF cycle and healthy baby?
No. There are many different factors affecting the chance of IVF success and no test can guarantee the birth of a healthy baby. Although Parental Support offers the most advanced PGD technology available, there are limitations to all PGD tests in part because the single cell analyzed from the embryo may differ genetically from the other cells in the embryo, a condition called mosaicism. With any pregnancy, there is a 3-5% risk for birth defects or genetic conditions and many of these are not detectable prior to implantation or even during pregnancy. Parental Support detects the portion of birth defects caused by aneuploidy (extra or missing chromosomes) but does not identify other structural chromosome abnormalities such as balanced translocations or small rearrangements of chromosome material. Also, as with all types of PGD, Parental Support does not analyze specific genes unless specifically requested, so it will not routinely identify single gene disorders like cystic fibrosis, musc
