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Current Trends in Fertility Preservation Through Egg Banking

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The first live birth from oocyte cryopreservation was reported approximately three decades ago. However, significant improvements in the clinical application of oocyte cryopreservation have taken place only over the last decade. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine has recently stated that oocyte cryopreservation should no longer be considered experimental for medical indications, a favorable stance toward elective oocyte cryopreservation.

New evidence suggests that success rates with donor oocyte vitrification are similar to that of IVF with fresh donor oocytes. Surveys on the attitudes toward oocyte cryopreservation have shown that elective use for the postponement of fertility is currently the most common indication for oocyte vitrification. A recent RCT has revealed important evidence on the safety of nondonor oocyte cryopreservation and confirmed that the clinical success of vitrification is comparable to that of IVF with fresh oocytes. Appropriate counselling of women for oocyte cryopreservation will require statistics of age-based clinical success rates with cryopreserved oocytes for different indications.

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  2. IVF Department, Rotunda – The Center for Human Reproduction, 36, Turner Road, 101, 1st Floor, B-Wing, Bandra (W), Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400050, India

    Goral Gandhi MSc

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Tambe, P., Gandhi, G. (2015). Current Trends in Fertility Preservation Through Egg Banking. In: Allahbadia, G., Kuwayama, M., Gandhi, G. (eds) Vitrification in Assisted Reproduction. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1527-1_8

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