Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine in Spain
A large number of people around the world choose Spain for gynecologic or assisted reproduction treatment: 40% of Europeans who travel abroad to receive a fertility treatment opt for Spain, with Barcelona the preferred destination.
Quirón and Teknon hospitals and the women’s health clinics at Dexeus University Hospital and the Instituto Marques are internationally renowned for their results and specialists. The use of the latest advances make it possible to minimize the risk of complications and other adverse consequences for women’s health, while achieving the greatest efficacy of therapy.
ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
As you know, the rate of infertile couples is growing worldwide. Only about 15% of reproductive-age couples in Europe can naturally conceive a child. Of these, about a third of the cases are related to men, another third to woman, and the remaining one-third is a combination of fertility factors involving both partners.
Reproductive medicine has advanced to such a degree that possibilities of conception exist for practically every infertile couple. Several clinics in Spain are ranked among the international leaders in reproductive medicine, and it is the country that receives the most foreign patients from across Europe. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that Spanish legislation is less restrictive in the use of assisted reproduction techniques than other countries; on the other are the high indices of effectiveness of fertility treatments in Barcelona health centers.
In fact, more than half of the embryos that are transferred in these centers today thrive with a minimum percentage of multiple pregnancies for women of every age.
The results of Dr. Ramon Aurell, Medical Director of the Assisted Reproduction team at Hospital Quirón Barcelona, places him among the best in the world. The pregnancy rate is 51% (for women between 35 and 39 years old), and 29% (40 to 44 years of age).
Dr. Aurell and his team perform the dynamic monitoring of embryonic development, the pre-transfer genetic diagnosis, a test that can identify and prevent the presence of genetic diseases, and the DNA analysis of the embryos, offering individual, personalized and confidential service as well as the highest patient comfort.
Interesting!
Barcelona has the largest assisted reproduction laboratory in Europe, and the best effectiveness indicators of couples at different ages, but we particularly like the following fact: vibrations through music sessions every four hours are held in IVF labs for the embryos…they even organize concerts! It’s a scientifically proven fact: music improves the rate of fertilization by 4%!
CHILDBIRTH IN BARCELONA
Pregnancy monitoring in hospitals such as Quirón, Teknon, Dexeus and Sant Joan de Déu has become one of the most requested services: foreign couples who opt for childbirth in Barcelona normally choose one of these centers. University hospitals like Dexeus and Sant Joan de Déu also specialize in the follow-up of high-risk pregnancy cases and fetal medicine.
The Prenatal Diagnosis Service at these centers works with leading specialists in morphological ultrasounds in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy and 4D ultrasound.
These hospitals have developed and implemented techniques that offer highly reliable information about the risk of chromosome or genetic defects, like a test that combines an anatomical ultrasound with the detection of fetal DNA in maternal blood, the best alternative to amniocentesis. Or another “Made in Barcelona” test that makes it possible to determine the degree of maturity of the fetus’s lungs, crucial for the quality of the first days of life of the baby, a test that allows for the prevention of one of the most common problems in newborns.
Foreign patients can come to Barcelona at any time during their pregnancy, as long as it’s before the 37th week. Barcelona hospitals offer natural births (without epidural), childbirth with epidural and, of course, C-sections. Pregnant women can choose how they prefer to give birth in normal, low-risk pregnancies. The mother’s trusted gynecologist along with a team of the best neonatologists will be on hand during the birth for even greater security and confidence. Not surprisingly, one of the best global indicators of infant and maternal mortality is recorded in Catalonia.
Many foreign couples prefer childbirth care at Barcelona hospitals: on the one hand, Barcelona’s hospitals have the most advanced technologies and the highest level of comfort and safety; on the other, they work with brilliant Specialists in obstetrics and neonatology.
Interesting!
Barcelona doctors invented the Babypod, a device that’s taking prenatal care to a whole new level. An intravaginal speaker allows mothers to stimulate neurons in the fetus’s brainstem by playing music directly to the fetus, promoting early attempts at vocalization. As scientists have demonstrated, using the Babypod starting in the sixteenth week of fetal development, when the baby begins to hear, helps accelerate the child’s cognitive and communicative development. This experience of listening to music, which fetuses react to by moving the body, mouth and tongue, becomes the first exciting shared experience between the mother and her baby.
