The Medical Reproduction Unit (UMR) at Centre Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) was developed under the impulse of Prof Marc Germond.  It started the activities in Medically Assisted Procreation (PMA) in the course of 1984.  Since then, the number of treated couples increased steadily year by year to come close to 2’000 in 2004.

Today Prof Dominique de Ziegler manages the UMR.  He is specialist in Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproduction Medicine.

Nearly 3’000 babies came into this world consequently to treatment realized in the context of the UMR.

The following categories can be differentiated:

• 1'500 children born after insemination (IUI and DI)
• 1'000 children born after fresh embryo transfer (IVF and ICSI)
• 500 children born after transfer of cryo-preserved zygotes

On the graphic below, we present the contribution of each assisted conception technique to the total number of children born since the opening of the UMR/CHUV:

Number of children born since 1984 in the UMR.

The Medically Assisted Procreation (PMA) relates to all the techniques designed to help unfertile couples to conceive outside the natural union and obtain a successful pregnancy. These techniques refer to a terminology and to acronyms, of which a non-exhaustive list is shown below (see Glossary)