Egg freezing (vitrification)
If you want to ensure by women the opportunity to have children in the future, CONCIBE offers the possibility to its patients to cryo preserve eggs (by vitrification), a technique that keeps frozen and functional for a future conception.
This technique seeks to minimize or to avoid the drawbacks of traditional freezing slow curve as the formation of ice crystals in the cell, is an effective method that helps not only as an alternative to control the biological clock of motherhood, but also to safeguard fertility in patients with cancer, before undergoing chemotherapy treatments, this technique remains functional and frozen eggs for a future conception.
Why to freeze eggs?
Over the years, like all cells in the human body, woman's eggs are gradually getting old in years, decreasing their quality, their ability to fertilize and to develop from an embryo as a result of a healthy pregnancy.
After 35 years, this effect, in the eggs, becomes more obvious until you reach menopause and thus have less chance to conceive a child with its own genetics.
Today with the Vitrification, CONCIBE, gives you the option to safeguard your young eggs for later childbearing slightly more advanced, with the guarantee of having own eggs, young and healthy for a successful pregnancy.
In what cases should eggs get to be frozen?
- Women who want to slow their biological clock of motherhood:
Professionals for their career development, education, transportation, among other reasons, are forced to postpone their desire to become mothers before turning 35.
- Women who have occupational risks:
Women who work in professions that can affect their hormonal and their reproductive system such as stewardess, radiologists, Military, Chemical, and others.
- Patients with cancer:
Women who suffer from a disease and as a result of the radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatments can threaten the quality of their eggs and ovaries, or in extreme cases to be force to remove their ovaries.
- Low ovarian response:
Women with low ovarian response, in this case is ideal to store up to 2 or 3 eggs and then devitrify hormonal inductions and have more eggs per cycle with probability of pregnancy.
- Premature ovarian failure:
Women who for many reasons are predisposed to suffer a premature ovarian failure, we mean menopause before the age of 40, have also the possibility to freeze their eggs before they exhaust their reserves.
- Male Factor:
Couples who during the assisted reproduction treatment, have difficulties In taking a semen sample on the day of egg aspiration and therefore the completion of treatment.
Why is it Novel?
For over 50 years there have been many techniques in cryo preservation of cells, tissues, semen, embryos and fluids, however, the egg cell was not easy to freeze and kept alive at a temperatures below 0 º C, the difficulty is partly due to its large size as being the largest cell in the human body that contains large amounts of water inside that when it is frozen, it easies the formation of large ice crystals that break their fine and delicate structures ultimately leading to death ,or if survives failures in a fertilization.
What is the procedure all about?
1. Medical evaluation, gynecological and hormonal.
2. Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (medication management).
3. Transvaginal aspiration of eggs.
4. Assessment and vitrification of mature eggs obtained.
5. Storage cryobank for time set by the patient (years).
Later when the patient decides to get pregnant
6. Devitrification (thawing) of eggs.
7. Fertilization by ICSI technique with the sperm of her husband.
8. Embryo culture.
9. Embryo transfer to uterus.
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