IVF-Zentrum Esslingen

In the middle of Esslingen am Neckar, at Martinstraße 15, the IVF center of Drs. Costea, Albowitz, and Hengel treats couples and individuals with infertility. The range runs from simple insemination through IVF and ICSI to diagnostic procedures that are offered less often elsewhere: endometrial diagnostics, tubal patency testing, and PRP flushing and injection to improve the uterine lining. In addition to classic embryo culture, the lab also performs blastocyst culture, in which embryos are cultured until the fifth or sixth day of development to improve selection before transfer. Cryopreservation of eggs and embryos rounds out the lab services. For communication between patients and the practice, the center relies on the HOPE app, a platform developed specifically for fertility clinics, through which treatment plans, semen analysis results, and messages can be exchanged in encrypted form. One practical aspect that is relevant for people with statutory health insurance: The center’s physicians are accredited under statutory health insurance, so certain fertility services can be billed to German statutory health insurance. The center explicitly also treats same-sex couples and single women. The website is also available in English and Turkish, which makes care easier for multilingual patients. Professionally, Dr. Albowitz, together with colleagues from Klinikum Esslingen, is also active in specialist publishing, for example on questions of fertility in cancer. The center is also listed in the FertiPROTEKT network, which specializes in fertility-preserving measures before oncological therapies. Patients from the Esslingen and Stuttgart area find here a range of services that goes beyond standard procedures.