Donated eggs are useful in cases when ovaries of recipient are not producing eggs (ovaries pathological dysfunction, malfunction or increased age ) or if repeatedly where unsuccessful cycles of artificial reproduction - no good embryos developed (no high quality eggs) and no chance to become pregnant. Also if there is present higher risk for genetically transmitted diseases and defects in offspring to appear.

1. No waiting list.

2.Our egg donors are between the ages of 21-33 years old and
-they must have good family medical history. An egg donor who has a history of cancer, heart disease, Down syndrome in the family, alcoholism, drug abuse, psychological problems etc, will not be accepted into our program;
- restricted number of times she participates in egg donation: the donor can donate eggs to 3 cycles;
- HIV, WAR, hepatitis, chlamydiosis, trichomonosis negative.

3. Our program is anonymous. The recipient can not see a photograph of the donor or know her name and address but can read a short history of her educational background, family's history. We have age limit for recipients - 50 years old. No identifying information regarding the recipient couple is provided to the donor.

4. Our donors are covered by their own health insurance to cover any unforeseen medical problems that result from ovarian stimulation and/or egg retrieval.

5. No extra costs for freezing and storing the embryos for 1 year. We freeze the embryos for 7 years. After failed cycle recipient need to wait 3 month before she can try again.

6. We have cryopreserved sperm of different donors according to international standard.

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Choosing Donors:

Recipient may choose donors she likes the most.

We ask to choose 3 donors instead of 1, so we have more opportunities to choose the best of them (best meaning donor whose cycle can be matched with recipient’s cycle, donor with whom we had best results, who has already donated etc). Then we will see which one of these 3 you chose is the best and we will use her cells. So please send us 3 codes of donors you like (you can see the codes in the egg donors table). Information about the terms used in the selection table:

1. Donor's EDUCATION LEVEL:

Keyword "high" in the list of donors stands for university study (student at the moment) or university degree (3 or 4 years of study = bachelor degree). Keyword "school" stands for 12 years of basic and secondary education. Our donors must have at least 12 years of school background (graduated secondary school).

2. Viruses:

Keyword “neg.” in the list of donors means donor does not have that virus, positive means she does have.

In different countries there are different practices. For example in some countries (like Finland) people are not tested for all these viruses named in the list of donors of Clinic Elite because 50-85% of population has those viruses. We, as a responsible medical institution, just want to be honest and tell our patients all we know about our donors. About importance of having or not having these viruses, you should ask from your personal GP.

3. Blood Type:

You may choose a donor you like most, you do not have to consider blood type etc. unless you consider it important for yourself - from medical point of view that is not important for us. Blood group could be important for people who already have antibodies or had some kind of group/rhesus conflict previously.

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Results (statistics) of egg donor usage in our Clinic:

Year of 2008 (egg donation):

In Clinic Elite there was performed 72 embryo transfers (ET) - fresh 61 and frozen 11 (FET).
Clinical pregnancy rate (heart activity positive) - 39 (54,2%).
Delivered 35 women (48,6%). Total number of children: 43 (23 boys and 20 girls). One child died at 31 weeks of gestation because of recipient's uterus rupture.
From 39 clinical pregnancies - 2 missed abortion; one ruptura uteri at 18 weeks of pregnancy; one medical abortion at 18 weeks of pregnancy (malformation by foetus).
Additionally to 39 clinical pregnancies we got 6 missed abortions where was not found embryo heart activity (we don't accept them in pregnancy rate) - all those pregnancies terminated by spontaneous or medical abortion.

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About sperm donation

Use of donor sperm should be taken into consideration in cases when the husband's sperm doesn't contain spermatozoon at all or its concentration of them is low, motility reduced and member of defective forms great or husband have inherited diseases.

Our sperm donors are healthy, married men in the age of 24-39 years. Most of them have higher education . The majority of donors have children.

According to the Estonian rules, all sperm donors have passed their compulsory analyses of sexually transmitted diseases. The security of inherited diseases has also been investigated.

Donor sperm is not used before 6 months after the delivering all control analyses are normal.

According to standards of the European Tissue banks Association, donor sperm is being preserved only frozen. Donors are anonymous.

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Clinic ELITE 2009