Institute for the care of mother and child

Profile of the Institute

The Institute for the Care of Mother and Child [Ústav pro péči o matku a dítě] offers complete care of the health of mothers and their children from the whole Czech Republic. Expert team of obstetricians, gynecologists and neonatologists provide women with a complete care during pregnancy, birth giving and they also offer care to women after the reproductive age.

There is also a perinatological center for women with problems during pregnancy that also provides care to newborn babies with low after-birth weight.

Our services

IVF

The Assisted Reproduction (IVF) Centre is found in the newly reconstructed areas of the Mother and Child Care Institute (UPMD), a holder of the E.B.C.O.G. Certificate for European Obstetric and Gynaecological Training Centres.

The IVF Centre is engaged in comprehensive diagnostics and treatment of infertile married couples, including in-vitro fertilisation with embryo transfer (IVF-ET) and the related micromanipulation techniques such as ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) where one sperm cell is injected into each oocyte, and assisted hatching, which makes it easier for the fertilised oocyte to get out of its shell. The centre carries out MESA (microepididymal sperm aspiration) and TESE (testicular sperm extraction) microsurgeries, in which spermatozoa are extracted directly from a testicle or an epididymis in a short-term anaesthesia in the case of male azoospermia (no sperm in the ejaculate). Such extracted spermatozoa are then injected directly into an oocyte by using the ICSI method.

Gynaecology

The gynaecological part of the Mother and Child Care Institute (MCCI) consists of an outpatient section and a bed section. The outpatient section provides the general gynaecological and specialised gynaecological care, that is, a complete range of gynaecological services.

Maternity

Pediatrics

Neonatology workplace logically provides for the care of pregnant women and demands, which are connected with the concentration of pathological pregnancies from all regions of the Czech Republic. On simple intensive care are concentrated newborns with failing vital function, which demand special approach to care and diagnostics.

Laboratories

UPMD central laboratories are constructed from a complex of several workplaces of various departments. They provide for practically all the necessary examinations for the clinical workplaces with small exceptions such as microbiological examinations and some serological assessments. (virology)

Reproduction immunology workplace

The reproductive immunology workplace of UPMD is one of the 3 specialized workplaces in Czech Republic, which is concerned with the immunological conditions of malfunction of fertility. It is already known for many years that one of the basic conditions of successful conception and termination of pregnancy is "tolerance" immunological compatability from mother’s side. It is not at all surprising-spermatozoa and consequently the fetus are foreign to the mother's immunity and without special "preventive measures" could be mercilessly liquidated by immunity.

CTN

CTN is the only one accredited workplace in the Czech Republic, which concentrates all malignant, potentially malignant and complicated forms of trophoblastic disease from all of Czech Republic. According to the public report of the Ministry of Health from 1976 to 1999 diagnosis, treatment and followed up care was provided. The department registers the incidence of trophoblastic disease in Czech Republic and administrates the epidemiological database of malignant and benign forms of trophoblastic disease. It a scientific research reference center for trophoblastic disease in the Czech Republic and provides consultation to all gynecological and pathological anatomy workplaces in the Czech Republic.

Department of Anaesthesiology

Realized procedures

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