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emBIO clinic is based in the city centre of Chalandri, Athens Greece. It opened in 1996 and since then more than 10,000 babies have been successfully conceived at the clinic. EmBIO features two world-class IVF laboratories and three operating theatres and has two ensuite patient recovery rooms.

IVF lab at emBIO

The Medical Director of emBIO is Dr. Thanos Paraschos. He is a well-known and internationally acclaimed obstetrician and gynaecologist specialising in infertility treatments. He was a member of the team performing the first PGD in the world in 1989, alongside Lord Professor Robert Winston and A.H. Handyside at the Hammersmith Hospital.

IVF and Egg Donation at emBIO Medical Center in Greece

All patients of emBIO are assigned an individual care team – this allows better communication and trust among patients and the staff. The staff at emBIO speak fluent English so if English is your native tongue there’s no need for a translator.

The clinic offers airport pickup for patients at the cost of EUR 4-50. emBIO has deals with local hotels so you can take advantage of the hotel promotional prices. Foreign patients who want to start their IVF treatment at EmBIO, can spend just a few days in Greece and, then, they can be monitored by the gynaecologist/obstetrician in their home country in collaboration with EmBIO’s fertility experts.

emBIO Medical Center Reviews

emBIO has been reviewed by patients many times; it has gathered over 110 Google Business reviews. Check some of them below:

“We had the luck to have worked with Dr.Thanos Paraschos on the implantation of our daughter. He was always so kind to answering all our questions which made the process stress and worry free. We felt very cared for. We never felt like we were just treated like a number. Now we have the sweetest little girl and we have him and his wonderful team to thank for!”

Reviewed by Triola Clothing

“Excellent! We found IVF Embio by chance last year after moving to Athens, my wife checked out their open night to get information and she liked the people working there so we got started. It was nice to go to a clinic where we felt to be a priority, had opportunity to ask as many questions as we wanted with Dr. Thanos and didn’t feel rushed. Appointment times were also quite flexible. And now we have a healthy baby, we’d say its totally worth giving IVF Embio a shot. Thanks to everyone who helped us!”

Reviewed by Elsa Raphael

“Dr Thanos is always genuinely friendly and takes as much or as little time as you want to go through the details. Not once did we feel rushed or put off from asking our many questions. But most importantly, he delivers results, we already have one amazing baby and number two is now on the way! We can’t thank him enough and would not hesitate to recommend him.”

Reviewed by Andino Papadopoulos

Contact emBIO Medical Center for more information and see if they can offer an egg donation program that is suitable for your medical and financial needs.

IVF cost and treatment options at emBIO Medical Center

IVF Treatment options:

Woman up to 54 years old

Single woman

Lesbian couples

Fresh donor eggs

Frozen donor eggs

Surrogacy

PGT-A (PGS) - embryo genetic testing

HIV positive - male

HIV positive - female

HBV/HCV positive - male

HBV/HCV positive - female

Gender selection (medical reason)

IVF costs:

Egg donation fresh cycle: from €4,500

Egg donation frozen cycle: Not available

Medical consultation: from €0

Frozen embryo transfer: from €1,100

Embryo donation: from €4,800

Donor sperm: from €300

Egg donors availability:

Egg donor race:

Caucasian (white)

Hispanic (Latino)

Scandinavian

African (black)

Asian

Indian

Arab

Egg donor anonimity:

Anonymous

Non anonymous

Donor pictures:

Donor picture

Donor as a baby picture

Donor egg source:

Egg Bank located at the Clinic

External Egg Bank

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Egg Donation Programs
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Fresh Egg Donation Package

€4,500

Basic information

Program with donor's oocytesFresh oocytes

Waiting time for donor eggsImmediately

Maximum number of visits in clinic2 visits

The maximum time of stay (days)5 days

Basic Guarantees

No. of oocytes: 12

Embryos day 3:3

Embryos day 5:2

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Additional costs required

Additional Costs

€2,800

First medical consultation (qualification)

INCLUDED

Embryologist consultation

INCLUDED

Program qualification tests for woman

INCLUDED

Program qualification tests for partner

INCLUDED

Recipient's medications

€100

Donor's medications and all other costs

INCLUDED

Sperm freezing before the program

€300

ICSI

INCLUDED

Blastocyst culture (embryo development till day 5th)

€500

Vitrification of (remaining) embryos and storage for 1 year

€800

ET - Embryo transfer

€1,100

Donor Genetic Screening (e.g. CGT, Recombine)

INCLUDED

No. of IVF cycles included in package

1

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Other procedures and costs

MACS

n/a

IMSI

€600

PICSI

€500

AH - assisted hatching

€500

Embryo Glue

€500

PGT-A (PGS) - genetic embryo testing

€2,000

Embryo Monitoring (Embryoscope, Time Lapse, Geri)

€500

Donor sperm

€300

FET - Frozen Embryo Transfer

€950

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Terms, conditions and payment

Terms, conditions and payment:

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emBIO Medical Center - Experience and Team

Clinic operates since: 1996

No. of IVF cycles (donor eggs): 330

No. of IVF cycles (own eggs): 710

No. of fertility doctors: 6

No. of embryologists: 5

MD Thanos Paraschos

Director of emBIO Medical Centre, Head of the In Vitro Fertilisation & Endoscopic Surgery Unit

Experience: 35 years

Languages: English, Italian, Greek, French

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BSc, MSc Dina Katrania

ART Laboratory Director

Experience: 31 years

Languages: Greek, English, Italian, French

Konstantinos Papathansiou

Coordinator of International Couples

Experience: 13 years

Languages: Italian, English, Greek

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emBIO Medical Center - IVF with Donor Eggs Success Rates

DATA CONFIRMED BY CLINIC

*Data provided by clinic for 2021

You should know:

Presented statistics don't include any frozen embryo transfers within an IVF cycle. Be aware of treatment costs as some clinics include frozen embryo transfers in their statistics and FET may not be included in program cost.

How are the success rates calculated?

Fresh donor eggs

single IVF cycle success rate per embryo transfer:

68%

Frozen donor eggs

single IVF cycle success rate per embryo transfer:

60%

Average number of embryos transferred per embryo transfer

The higher number of embryos the higher risk of multiple pregnancy:

2

Preferred embryo transfer day

day 3 (cleavage) or day 5 (blastocyst):

5

Your individual chances to successful treatment

If you don't want to fall into IVF success rates trap, ask the clinic about your individual prognosis based on your age, medical history, previous treatments and infertility diagnosis.

Have questions about IVF success rates?

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    Fresh vs Frozen donor eggs

    Fresh donor eggs
    Fresh donor oocytes were used for fertilization with donor or partner's sperm.

    Frozen donor eggs
    Donor oocytes from egg bank were thawed before fertilization with donor or partner's sperm.

    Note:
    As statistics shown in various sources (ESHRE, SART) on average the value of success rate when using frozen eggs may be 10% lower than with fresh eggs.

    Embryo transfer day and number of embryos

    Embryo transfer day
    Many clinics prefer to transfer embryos on day 5 at the blastocyst stage as it may lead to better outcomes of an IVF program. 

    Number of embryos to transfer
    International and national medical organizations including ASRM, SART and ESHRE discourage the transfer of a large number of embryos because of the increased likelihood of multiple-fetus pregnancies. Multiple-fetus pregnancies, in turn, increase the probability of premature births and related health problems.

    Worth to know:

    We encourage IVF Clinics to present success rates per cycle rather than per patient. We also ask clinics not to include any frozen embryo transfers in success rates calculation. 

    Please bear in mind that including frozen embryo transfers (FET) in statistics may increase the overall value of success rates - however at the same time it will increase the cost of the IVF treatment. IVF Clinics usually do not include frozen embryo transfer costs in their programs. That means that if you have any embryos left - the treatment will cost you more than advertised by the clinic.

    IVF Success Rates

    The way IVF success rates are calculated may vary from clinic to clinic. Calculating and presenting success rates by clinics is a common "communication" issue as clinics try to advertise the best values on their websites.

    IVF success rates are usually calculated as a percentage of clinical pregnancies dividing the number of favorable results such as number clinical pregnancies by the number of procedures performed such as a number of embryo transfers, according to the following formula:

    "number of pregnancies or number of live births / number of embryo transfers"

    You should be aware that the success of IVF treatment is the sum of different factors and circumstances, only few of which depend on the clinic itself. The latter are surely the experience and professionalism of the medical staff as well as offered IVF treatments that allow particular types of patients (with either lower or higher chances of a successful pregnancy).

    However, in majority of cases it is your individual situation, condition and medical history that influence the result of the treatment. Your age, genetic factors or various reasons for infertility play a crucial role in determining the IVF success.

    Contact in person the clinics you’re interested in and discuss your own perspectives on IVF success instead of studying success rates advertised on clinic's websites.

    If you'd like to now more about egg donation success rates please refer to this article:
    Donor egg IVF success rates – the truth clinics don’t tell you

    If you'd like to know more about IVF with own eggs success rates please refer to this article:
    IVF Success Rates – myths & figures revealed

    Basic information

    Here you'll find basic information about the program and the sum of additional costs that are required to carry out the treatment.

    The "Additional costs" mean that there are additional costs to cover on top of the advertised program price. You may find these costs in the "Included in program and additional costs" tab below.

    Popup - Basic guarantees:

    Guarantees refer to number of donor eggs (oocytes) included in the program, number of embryos which are guaranteed on day 3 or day 5 at the blastocyst stage.

    Important:
    When the clinic offers an embryo guarantee, the basic requirement is good quality partner’s sperm. Usually IVF clinics use WHO standards to assess the sperm parameters. If this is the case, make sure you ask the clinic which particular standards are being applied and what parameters are taken into account. Some fertility clinics apply their own standards. 
    Make sure you ask what happens, if despite good sperm parameters, you will not receive the guaranteed number of embryos.

    What does it mean?

    Here you will find all the options that are included in the program and those that are necessary to carry out the IVF program but at an additional cost. 

    All procedures/services which are not included have additional costs that you will have to cover apart from the costs of the Program.

    What does it mean?

    Other procedures and services that are possible to perform at the Clinic at additional cost.

    Remember the decision to use medical services should be made after consulting your doctor.

    Refund based on outcome

    IVF Refund Program is a term used for financial IVF programs. They give the patient access to two or three IVF cycles for one payment. Usually fresh embryo transfers and extra frozen embryo transfers are included in the price.

    A multi-cycle IVF refund program means that the treatment continues until the desired result. It may refer to either clinical pregnancy or a live birth – or until all of the program’s cycles are completed. If the IVF program ends successfully, the clinic will not return your money. However, if you don’t achieve your goal, you can count on a partial or full refund of the costs.

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