Egg quality indicates how prepared a woman's eggs are to develop into healthy embryos once fertilised. A poor quality egg can disrupt the reproductive process and make the difference between carrying a pregnancy to term or not.
Similarly, poor quality eggs can lead to chromosomally abnormal pregnancies and increase the risk of genetic disorders in the baby.
There is no treatment to improve oocyte quality, however, techniques such as In Vitro fertilization allow the extraction of several eggs in the hope that some of them will be of good quality.
In the event that a woman does not have viable eggs after IVF treatment, she can resort to egg donation, guaranteeing a 90% success rate for having her baby at home.
