Overall PGTA is able to diagnose genetic defects with approximately 98% accuracy. Even if a patient undergoes PGD, prenatal testing such as amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is usually recommended to confirm the PGTA diagnosis.
I am in a great facebook group of women going through IVF or thinking about going through with the procedure due to unforeseen fertility issues. A common topic I see pop up is, “should I pay for the additional PGTA testing, my insurance doesn’t cover and we are already at our max for out of pocket.”
Believe me when I tell you that I understand the financial burden that this process can have on a family. My husband and I are very blessed to have insurance covering a portion of IVF but we’re already out of pocket around $15,000 and we haven’t even got to the egg transfer. In my opinion, PGTA testing is SO important, it tests for chromosomal errors aka an Aneuploid. What is aneuploidy? Having missing or extra chromosomes is a condition called aneuploidy. The risk of having a child with an aneuploidy increases as a woman ages. Trisomy is the most common aneuploidy. In trisomy, there is an extra chromosome. These chromosomal errors statistically end in miscarriage. A mental, physical and now financial burden for $5,000 to complete another egg transfer. In perspective, my 8 embryos were sent to PGTA testing which costed us an additional $1,500. Only 1 out of my 8 embryos had a chromosomal error (which was really LOW, a lot of the times 20-30% of eggs can have these chromosomal errors) it pays off in the long run to know which of the embryos are the healthiest for the highest success transfer rate. The other perk was of course, we found out their genders. Christian and I have a chance at 5 boys and 2 girls in our future.
From my experience, we are over the moon with our PGTA results and excited to transfer our healthy baby boy embryo, Dec 14th, 2022. A preview of our results is attached below.
Stick baby stick!
Baby dust, to you and yours
Alexandra Glisson.
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