Less bleeding and pain with Vitrolife's follicle aspiration needle according to multicenter study

Less bleeding and pain with Vitrolife's follicle aspiration needle
according to multicenter study

The Swemed Sense™ needle gives less pain and bleeding compared with a
conventional needle for oocyte aspiration. The results of the
multicenter study carried out in Sweden were presented yesterday during
the ongoing ESHRE conference in Rome.

“The follicle aspiration needle Swemed Sense™ makes it possible to work
in a new way, which is more favourable for patients, and at the same
time it meets all the other quality requirements for a follicle
aspiration needle”, says Dr. Matts Wikland, who works at Fertility
Center Scandinavia in Gothenburg, when he presented the results of the
study at the annual meeting of ESHRE, the European Society of Human
Reproduction and Embryology. The conference has been ongoing since
Sunday and has gathered approximately 8,000 international delegates.

 

The study has investigated how the sensation of pain in women undergoing
oocyte aspiration before IVF differs if a new needle with a thinner tip
(Swemed Sense™) is used, compared with a conventional, thicker needle. 
The results show that a needle with a thinner tip give less pain and
bleeding compared with a conventional needle. The time taken to retrieve
oocytes and the number of undamaged oocytes were not different in the
two groups.

 

 

 

 

July 1, 2010

Gothenburg, Sweden

Magnus Nilsson, CEO

 

 

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