2017 Yelp Award Winner
At Austin Fertility Reproductive Medicine & Westlake IVF (AFRM), we’re honored to be presented with the 2017 Yelp Award. This award recognizes and celebrates local businesses that have “earned the love of customers”. Drs. Shahryar Kavoussi and Parviz Kavoussi exclaim, “There’s nothing more rewarding than hearing from patients themselves that we’ve made a difference in […]
Treating Low Testosterone that Safely Preserves Male Fertility
The Primed Southwest annual conference was held in Houston, TX this year. This multi-topic primary care conference updates primary care physicians on important topics in medicine. Dr. Parviz Kavoussi was invited to speak as a guest lecturer at the 2017 Primed conference. He spoke on the topic of hypogonadism, also known as low testosterone. As […]
Embryo Freezing has Improved Significantly Over the Years
The main goal of embryo freezing is to cryopreserve the embryo for later use. The first successful pregnancy that resulted from freezing a woman’s embryos was in the early 1980s. Since then, the factors in the IVF laboratory, including culture media, the ability to grow embryos in vitro to the blastocyst stage at day 5 […]
Dr. Parviz Kavoussi Lectures on Surgical Technique that Removes Tumor & Retrieves Sperm Simultaneously
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is the most common genetic disorder of steroid production affecting male fertility. One in every 16,000 individuals has classic CAH, which makes it one of the most common autosomal recessive human genetic diseases. Due to a disruption in the steroid producing pathway, men with CAH have an overproduction of steroid hormones […]
