2011 Success Rates from LWC Wales

Everyone wants to know their individual chance for acheiving a pregnancy by IVF. There are many factors affecting your chance which include the women's age, the cause of your infertility and the duration of infertility. You will receive the best advice from one of our consultant's who will give you a more precise chance of acheiving a pregnancy based on your circumstances.

What we can present to you are the success rates for groups of patients in similar groups.

There are many different ways of presenting "sucess rates". Unlike other clinics, we choose to present our "success" as acheiving a foetal heart beat at 7 weeks gestation, this means you have achieved a "clinical pregnancy". For success rates calculated for less than 50 cycles the number is presented (n=).

IVF/ICSI

Age	Success rate
Under 35	45%
35-37	25%
38-39 (n=38)	21%
40-42 (n=31)	13%

IVF Lite

Age	Success rate
All ages (n=21)	71%

Egg-sharing

Age	Success rate
Egg-sharers (n=40)	48%
Egg-share recipients	41%

eSET and Cumulative e-SET results

Age	Success rate
e-SET results
Under 35	51%
35-37 (n=27)	22%
38-39 (n=2)	0%
Cumulative e-SET and subsequent frozen transfer results
All ages	78%

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) with donor sperm

Age	Success rate
Swansea 2008-11
Under 35	32%
35-40	21%
40+ (n=15)	13%
Cardiff 2008-11 (over three cycles)
Under 35	20%
35-40 (n=48)	14.5%
40+ (n=27)	7.5%

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) with partner sperm August 2008-October 2011

Age	Success rates
Cardiff
Under 35 (n=33)	18%
Swansea
Under 35	10%
35-40	14%
40-42 (n=13)	0%

Verified live birth rates for 2009 are available from the HFEA website

Please note that success rates have limitations as the basis for comparison and personal choice. For further advice please visit the HFEA's advice pages.