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About Memorial Health Group - Infertility Treatment Center
The Facility Memorial IVF, Andrology and Genetic Center provides top quality service with its experienced team, strong infrastructure and modern treatment methods. We have a team of 70 experienced staff. Having accomplished many firsts in Turkey, we are one of the most renowned IVF Centers in Europe. Our Center was the first in Turkey to apply techniques such as Microinjection and surgical sperm extraction, embryo freezing procedures, endometrial co-culture, genetic diagnosis of embryos etc. More than 9000 babies were born thanks to our experience and the application of these sophisticated methods. Memorial IVF and Genetics Center consists of IVF, Andrology, and Perinatology Clinics; Embryology, Andrology, Research and Development laboratories. This is the only center in Turkey where all these units are present. Our Center is the first and the only Center certified by the Ministry of Health to train doctors, embryologists, biologists and nurses for IVF implementations. Our team has achieved outstanding success in helping patients with issues such as repeated implantation failure and pregnancy in later ages. Through our scientific research and development we continuously refine existing techniques and develop new techniques in these fields. With all these achievements, various treatment techniques we offer; our Center occupies an important position not only in Turkey but in Europe and worldwide. Therefore we have many patients coming abroad especially from Italy, Germany and the Balkan States. Our Research and Development Laboratory was the first to obtain and cultivate embryonic stem cells in Turkey; we achieved to obtain various tissue types such as functional heart muscle cell and nerve tissue cell. Our Center has been and will be a leader and an example with its scientific and ethical studies. We are working on improving the success of IVF treatments and developing new techniques by cooperating with the world’s best centers. 
By using pre-implantation genetic diagnostic (PGD) methods in families who have a risk of genetic disorder, it is possible to diagnose thalassaemia, Muscular Dystrophy, Hemophilia etc. in embryos.
In addition to infertility treatment, we also feature Research and Development Studies in our Center; research and knowledge sharing is very important to us; we hosted the 5th World Congress on Genetic Preimplantation Diagnosis; thereby the congress took place in Turkey.
About IVF with ICSI at Memorial
IVF with ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection), also known as microinjection, is mainly used for men who have fertility problems. It is when a single sperm is injected into an egg. This procedure is performed under a microscope using microinjectors.
ICSI has very high success rates, especially among couples in their early thirties. ICSI has enabled 95% of infertile men to become biological fathers. ICSI or microinjection is for men who have low amounts or no spermatozoids in their ejaculation, or abnormalities.
Our Center is the first center in Turkey that achieved pregnancy using the microinjection technique. And also, IVF Center and the Genetics Laboratory are located in the same building (Memorial Hospital IVF Center happens to be the only Center in Turkey where you can find all these facilities together).
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Prof. Dr. Semra Kahraman, Head of the IVF, Andrology and Genetic Center; is the first Doctor in Turkey to achieve pregnancy by using the Microinjection technique (ICSI). She also lead many other studies to implement new techniques. Prof. Dr. Kahraman accomplished many firsts in Turkey thanks to her collaborative studies with international experts; some of these are in assisted reproductive technology, surgical sperm extraction, freezing techniques and preimplementation genetic diagnosis. Prof. Dr. Semra Kahraman is a founder member and member of the executive board of Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis International Society, she is also member of many other associations like ASRM, ESHRE and APART. She has more than 200 publications in national and international magazines, about 300 scientific presentations, 10 book chapters and 2 published books. The knowledge and experience of Prof. Dr. Semra Kahraman and her team; and the technological facilities of worldwide standards of Memorial created one of the world’s best IVF and Genetics Center.
Semih Özkan, M.D., Associated Professor in Urology. He graduated from Hacettepe University medical faculty in 1981 and finished his postgraduate training in Urology in the same university hospital in 1986. After he completed the military service as an urologist in the air force hospital in Izmir, he started his academic career in Urology in Inönü University Medical Faculty. He became Associated Professor in Urology in 1997.Since 2000, he has been working in the Istanbul Memorial Hospital ART & Reproductive Genetics Centre as the director of the Andrology Unit. His main interests are role of genetics in the management of male infertility and the impact of sperm retrieval techniques in the ART outcome for severe male infertility patients.
Dr. Özkan is a member of Turkish Urological Association and Turkish Andrology Association.
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