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The most distressing consequence of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is the loss of fertility. As the average age at which women are giving birth continues to rise, more women will develop POI before having had a child. There are many causes of POI, but in the majority of cases the cause is unknown and there is as yet no reliable way of predicting the age of menopause or those at risk of POI.
The diagnosis of POI is often made during the course of fertility investigations or treatments. Fertility cryopreservation with storage of gametes or embryos has been used for a number of years prior to chemo-radiotherapy and there is now increase in demand for social egg freezing in women who are wishing to preserve fertility. However, there is little data regarding outcome of social egg freezing where women are significantly older.
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Savvas, M., Hamoda, H. (2014). Premature Ovarian Insufficiency and Its Fertility Implications. In: Genazzani, A.R., Brincat, M. (eds) Frontiers in Gynecological Endocrinology. ISGE Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03494-2_11
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