Patient Care

Fertility specialists at Duke Fertility Center provide a broad scope of compassionate care to help individuals and couples build their family. Whether patients experience fibroids, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, recurrent miscarriages or other hormonal problems, we can help diagnose the cause, and choose from an array of treatments. Our physicians are board certified in both general Obstetrics & Gynecology and the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.  

Our program routinely manages complex fertility problems

  • Unexplained infertility
  • Male factor infertility, such as significant problems with sperm quality or prior vasectomy
  • Third-party reproduction, including gestational carriers, sperm donors, egg donors or a combination of these
  • Fertility preservation
  • Recurrent pregnancy loss
  • Risk of genetic disorders in offspring
  • Amenorrhea
  • Endometriosis
  • Polycystic ovary disease
  • Primary ovarian insufficiency (premature ovarian failure)
  • Congenital uterine disorders

Treatment options

  • Intrauterine insemination
  • Donor sperm insemination 
  • In vitro fertilization
  • Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (a single sperm injected into an egg)
  • Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
  • Ultrasound-guided embryo transfer
  • Freezing of extra embryos for future use
  • Egg donor in vitro fertilization
  • In vitro fertilization with the use of a gestational carrier

Our fertility preservation services

  • Freezing of unfertilized eggs (oocyte cryopreservation)
  • Freezing of fertilized eggs (embryo cryopreservation)
  • Freezing of ovarian tissue (ovarian tissue cryopreservation)
  • Freezing of sperm (sperm cryopreservation)

Our Reproductive Surgeons improve fertility using the newest technologies 

  • Laparoscopic treatment of 
  • Uterine fibroids
  • Endometriosis
  • Pelvic scar tissue (adhesions)
  • Hysteroscopic treatment of
  • Uterine polyps
  • Uterine fibroids
  • Uterine scar tissue
  • Proximal tubal occlusion
  • Microscopic tubal ligation reversal via mini-laparotomy (same-day surgery)

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