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<p>In order to transfer embryos to a surrogate mother, a few prerequisites need to be fulfilled.</p>
<h3>Surrogate mother</h3>
<p>The option <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Person is:</span> Surrogate mother </strong>needs to be checked for this patient. These are the steps:<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<li>Click on <strong>Demographics </strong>(female) then, double-click the green area on the right.</li>
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<li>On the opened window <strong>Person and donor information</strong>, you need to check that the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Person is:</span> </strong><strong>Surrogate mother</strong>.</li>
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<p>Change to the recipient patient.</p>
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<h3>Patient</h3>
<p>The option <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Person needs:</span></strong><strong>Surrogate mother</strong><strong> </strong>needs to be checked for this patient. These are the steps:</p>
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<li>Click on <strong>Demographics </strong>(female) then, double-click the green area on the right.</li>
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<li>On the opened window <strong>Person and donor information</strong>, you need to check that the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Person needs:</span></strong><strong>Surrogate mother</strong>.</li>
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<h2>Matching patient and surrogate mother</h2>
<p><em>Note: you can also match a patient with its surrogate mother from the main screen. <a href="/index.php?title=How_to_donate_fresh_oocytes_(1)%3F#Matching_donor_and_recipient">Click here</a> to check this other method.</em></p>
<p>On the patient needing a surrogate mother, create a new cycle. In order to do that, click on the '<strong>+</strong>' button at the bottom left corner of the main patient's window.</p>
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<p>When creating the cycle, you need to select either <strong>IVF/ICSI</strong> or <strong>Thaw cycle </strong>(for cryopreserved embryos). Check <strong>Embryo transfer to surrogate mother</strong> (1). You can create the surrogate mother's cycle directly from here by clicking on&nbsp;the <strong>Matcher</strong> button (2).</p>
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<p>In&nbsp;<strong>Matcher</strong> you can filter by many parameters (<strong>Filter by:</strong>) or search (1) by name. After you have found the desired surrogate mother, click on the <strong>Match</strong> button (2).</p>
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<h2>Cycle for surrogate mother</h2>
<p>After you confirm a link between patient and surrogate mother, you will see a window for linking cycles. We do not have a cycle yet, so we can create it directly from here by pressing the&nbsp;<strong>Matcher</strong> button (1) or just by double-clicking on the grey area (2).</p>
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<p>In new cycle window you need only to check&nbsp;<strong>Surrogacy</strong> and a start date. Type of treatment (<strong>Only reception</strong>) must be chosen automatically.</p>
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<h2>Linking cycle of patient and surrogate mother</h2>
<p>After creating a cycle for the surrogate mother, we are back at the window&nbsp;<strong>Link cycles for surrogacy</strong>. Confirm the message to link both patients.</p>
<p>Now, both cycles are linked. You can see an icon (1) that represents    this link. But, before the transfer of embryos is performed, you can    undo this procedure (linking another cycle) by pressing the <strong>Matcher</strong> button (2).</p>
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<p>Now we can finish creating the cycle for our patient by confirming the procedures of the remaining windows.</p>
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<h2>Embryo transfer</h2>
<p>Now that we created all cycles and have them linked, we can continue with the embryo transfer.</p>
<p>Switch to&nbsp;<strong>Aspiration</strong> and select the amount of oocytes collected.</p>
<p>In&nbsp;<strong>Culture</strong> under&nbsp;<strong>Graphical representation</strong>, you can perform normal procedures to cultivate the material until it is ready for transfer. Select the desired embryos, right-click and transfer them to surrogate mother by choosing on&nbsp;<strong>Embryo transfer to surrogate mothe</strong>r. They will be transferred to the cycle of the surrogate mother.</p>
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<p>To undo the transfer, select the desired embryos, right-click and choose&nbsp;<strong>Embryo transfer to surrogate mother</strong>.</p>
<p><em>Note: cell tracking also work for surrogacy. <a href="/index.php?title=Donation#Cell_tracking">Click here</a> to learn more about it.</em></p>
<p>Now switch to the surrogate mother's cycle and, select the received embryos, right-click and choose the appropriate transfer method from the menu. The image below shows how the transfer looks after it is done.</p>
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<p>You can link more surrogate mothers to a cycle if necessary. Just right click an embryo and choose <strong>Link cycle for surrogacy</strong>. Now repeat the steps from this page to link another patient to this cycle.</p>
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