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University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1983
Attempt at test tube baby fails
Bv MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
The new in vitro fertilization program at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., yesterday added another failure to its list of attempts at a successful pregnancy.
The Med Center appeared close to success with it most recent attempt until yesterday when William Cameron, director of the program, announced that the prospective mother was losing the embryo.
The Overland Park woman in her early 39s, who has been trying for nine years to have a baby, kept the embryo frozen and sent it to another fertilization at the Med Center.
CAMERON SAID THAT his department has made 19 attempts to retrieve eggs from patients' ovaries and that they had been successful each time. Of these 19 retrievals, 18 embryos have been transferred to women's uteruses.
The Med Center started in vitro fertilization in April, Cameron said. The process involves taking sperm and ova from a couple, allowing the eggs to be fertilized by sperm and Petri dish and then transferring the embryo to the woman's uterus.
Cameron said that since the program started in April the Med Center had accepted 20 women and had a waiting list of 110 to 120. He said about 350 people had requested literature about the program.
Cameron said that the selection process was rather arbitrary but there was a clear point.
THE PROGRAM ACCEPTS only married women, preferably under 35 years old, who have been trying for a child. Seven years to have children, he said.
He said that people with fertility problems who were already patients at the Med Center would probably be treated by a fertility expert, but others would also be accepted.
The program takes women with tubal or pelvic disease, irreversible tubal ligations and cervical problems, and men with low sperm counts, be said.
Cameron said that there were only 22 or 23 hospitals in the country doing in-
The cost of the process is $2,900 for
one attempt and $2,460 for each
attempt.
CAMERON SAID THAT patients were limited to five tries at fertilization because the chances of getting preg- necissary are better at the beginning of the process.
He also said that the general anesthesia used in retrieving the ova had certain risks. The hospital did not risk such problems for such low chances of success.
George Irwin, director of the in vitro fertilization laboratory, said that the program was funded through the Gynecology and Obstetrics Foundation. The Center is grouped of Mid Center doctors in the department of gynecology and obstetrics.
Irwin said the doctors donated the ear to the foundation to fund the in vitro research.
MELISSA CROSKELL, a medical technologist who advises patients entering the program, said that the people applying for the program were well informed and did not apply for the program blindly.
She said that the people wanted to know statistics, what their chances were, how many times they could have success done and what their options were.
Cameron said that because the time element was so important to the process, few couples outside the Kansas City area had applied. It takes many different sessions on a strict time schedule to achieve the right results, he said.
On the first appointment, doctors give the women a drug to induce ovulation.
A tube is inserted into the abdomen 36 hours later and fluid is extracted that presumably contains ova. Cameroon three eggs each time. To get at least three eggs each time.
IF THE OVUM is mature enough to be fertilized, it is placed in a petri dish with the sperm. If it not mature, it is added for 24 hours and then sperm is added.
Sperm, obtained from the husband two hours before fertilization is scheduled, is washed and spun in a centrifuge and healthy sperm swim to the top; this is a simulation of the natural weeding out of sperm by the vagina and cervix.
Cameron said that sometimes a woman had an immunity to a man's sperm. He said that washing the sperm would stop the immune reaction.
After the sperm are washed and the eggs are determined to be mature, doctors add sperm to the ova at a rate of 500.000 sperm for each egg.
Embryos are transferred to the woman's uterus 48 hours after insemination, putting the sperm and ova together.
IN VITRO PERLITILIZATION is particularly useful for men with low spirometry.
An extremely low sperm count is five million, he said, but it only takes 500,000 sperm to fertilize one egg with in vitro fertilization.
Cameron said that embryos were often transplanted more than one at a time so that the chances of success were high. This could result in multiple births.
He said that once a woman was pregnant through in vitro fertilization, any choices made were hers. If it has been determined that she will have a multiple birth, she may want to abort the children, he said.
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The Seymour Pub, also a part of the Learned Club, is an old English-styre bar and pub, and has a salad and food bar. But like any other club in Kansas, visitors must be 21 years old, Wintermote said.
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KU police traced the badges and found that they had been stolen from security personnel at Quinsigamond College, Worchester, Mass. on May 8.
According to a KU police report, on June 16, a Stouffer Place maintenance supervisor, Ivan R. Hobbs, and a helper with the building's edges on the roof of Stouffer building 8.
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Seymour said the Learned Club will open August 15. The Alumni Association will move into its new offices on the third floor in mid-July.
The recent discovery of two discarded police badges has shed light on a May 10 campus incident in which three men, impersonating immigration agents, tried to persuade the wife of a KU student to leave with them.
Ann Seymour, an administrative assistant for the Alumni Association, distributed a brochure about the building during the opening of the building before the meeting.
Stolen badges lead to impersonators
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Though their discovery was recent, the badges provided a clue for a location.
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The Learned Club takes up the entire second floor of the center. It is open to members of the Alumni Association who have paid an annual user fee, said Dick Wintorme, manager of the treasurer of the Alumni Association.
The first floor of the center contains a hobby room, music room and reading room for retired faculty.
The fee is $25 for Douglas County residents. Alumni Association members who live outside Douglas County pay only $15 because they are likely to
On the evening of May.10, two days
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Quinsigamond Community College head of security, Philip Boullette, would not comment on a reason why the police asked for charges or inquiries immigration agents.
DENNEY SAID THE four suspects have maintained that they "were hired by a relative" of Parissa to persuade her to give up the evidence he could not substantiate their claim.
Bouthiette also said he had not decided yet whether he should not press the buttons, but based on his
"We might deal with this through in-house discipline," he said.
KU police director Jim Denney said last week that the four suspects returned to Massachusetts and that KU police records regarding the incident had been turned over to Douglass County District Attorney Jerry Harper.
POLICE RECORDS INDICATE that the men then returned to a white car with a Massachusetts license tag where a driver was waiting and drove a way.
Harper also refused to discuss any other aspect of the case.
BOUTHILETTE SAID THAT two of the four men were students at the college when the badges were stolen and that they had not yet graduated.
on whether felony charges would be filed against the four for impersonating federal agents.
According to the report, the three men who stood outside showed Parisaia their badges and then identified themselves as U.S. Immigration and Natu-ral Reserve. They then tried to persuade Parisaia to leave with them, the report said.
after the disappearance of the badges, the wife of a KU student, Sassan Parissa, answered the door of her buffer apartment, a KU police report said.
But Parlasa refused to go.
Harper refused to comment last week
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