Dr. Molly Quinn was recently quoted in an article written by Marie Holmes for Huff Post titled “Will Platelet-Rich Plasma Treatment Increase My Odds Of Success With IVF?”.
Fertility patients often turn to acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, mindfulness and other treatment modalities in spite of mixed or sparse evidence of their effectiveness. In recent years, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been added to the list of therapies that some patients seek in hopes of increasing their odds of success with IVF.
PRP treatment takes a small amount of the patient’s blood and spins it at high speed in a centrifuge to separate the different components of the blood, yielding a portion of plasma with a very high concentration of platelets. “Actually it’s been used in dermatology, plastic surgery, orthopedics and only recently has it began to be trialed in fertility treatments,” Dr. Molly Quinn, a reproductive endocrinologist at HRC Fertility in Pasadena, California, told HuffPost. Because evidence that PRP is effective is lacking, “I wouldn’t offer it to patients outside of an IRB-approved investigational study,” she said.
Dr. Molly Quinn goes on to discuss PRP treatment studies in fertility, “ovarian rejuvenation,” and options for patients when IVF is not working.
Read the complete article on HuffPost on whether PRP treatments for patients are effective