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Article: COUPLES' LAST HOPE: IN VITRO FERTILIZATION.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 2, 1991
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
A harsh spotlight illuminates the scene in the operating room, where a total of seven nurses and doctors monitors a riot of tubes and high-tech machinery engulfing the patient, who lies anesthetized on a table, her legs spread wide by padded stirrups.
Today's procedure is called transvaginal aspiration. In layman's terms, it means the woman's artificially enhanced eggs are being drawn out of her body with a suction needle guided by a surgeon's trained hands and an ultrasound video image.
This is the third step of in vitro fertilization, which attempts to produce with medical technology and human manipulation ...