Our successful pregnancy rates were confirmed once again for 2019 according to the latest figures from the IVF Register (DIR) – the official supervisory body that monitors the quality of fertility treatments in German fertility centres.
With clinical pregnancies per transfer based on all fresh cycles at 41.0 per cent, Fleetinsel Fertility Clinic is once again well above the German average of 31.0 per cent. And in an international comparison, we also achieve the world gold standard in all age groups – even though regulations for artificial insemination are more stringent in Germany. In addition, the DIR statistics show that our treatments consistently show hardly any overstimulation and no complications during retrievals. For us as a fertility clinic, the figures from recent years confirm that our success is largely based on our claim to provide customised, risk-minimising and high-quality fertility treatment that benefits every single one of our couples who wish to have a child.
You can check the success of a fertility clinic – and at least roughly estimate your personal chances of having a child – by looking at its statistics. Bear in mind that the probability of getting pregnant also depends on personal factors, including the age of both partners, the reasons for infertility and how long the desire to have a child has been unfulfilled.
Only pregnancies that can be detected by an ultrasound scan are included in our analyses. Those that only manifest as an increased hormone level but do not lead to the onset of an ongoing pregnancy, referred to as “biochemical pregnancies”, are generally not taken into account. This allows you to make a more realistic assessment.
If you look at success rates, you should know that these are always stated per treatment cycle with successful embryo transfer as standard.
Please note: some statistics list “cumulative pregnancy rates”, which means that instead of one treatment cycle, three to four treatment cycles are taken into account. The more treatments (attempts) that have been carried out using transferred embryos, the higher the overall probability of pregnancy. Thus, the result for cumulative pregnancies is higher in percentage terms. Cumulative pregnancy rates therefore are not comparable with the success rates of a treatment cycle.
Further data on artificial insemination is available on the German IVF Register. Figures on all IVF and ICSI treatments carried out in Germany are published here every year (see “Annual Reports”). In its capacity as the official German supervisory body, the IVF Register monitors the quality of fertility treatments in German fertility centres and records all IVF and ICSI treatments annually.
Of course, Fleetinsel Fertility Clinic in Hamburg also takes part in this anonymous data collection.