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REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 643-650Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.02.010
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fertility; follicle recruitment; ovarian cryopreservation; transplant
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Ovary cryopreservation and transplantation has garnered increasing interest as a possible method to preserve fertility for cancer patients and to study ovarian resting follicle recruitment. Eleven consecutive women underwent fresh donor ovary transplantation, and 11 underwent cryopreserved ovary auto-transplantation in the same centre, with the same surgeon. Of the 11 fresh transplant recipients, who were all young but menopausal, nine women had normal ovarian cortex transplanted from an identical twin sister, and two had a fresh allograft from a non-identical sister. In the second group, 11 women with cancer had ovarian tissue cryopreserved before bone marrow transplant, and then after years of therapeutically induced menopause, underwent cryopreserved ovarian cortex autotransplantation. Recovery of ovarian function and follicle recruitment was assessed in all 22 recipients, and the potential for pregnancy was further investigated in 19 (11 fresh and 8 cryopreserved) with over 1-year follow-up. In all recipients, normal FSH levels and menstruation returned by about 150 days, and anti-Mullerian hormone reached much greater than normal concentrations by about 170 days. Anti-Mullerian hormone levels then fell below normal by about 240 days and remained at that lower level. Seventeen babies have been born to these 11 fresh and eight cryopreserved ovary transplant recipients. (C) 2015 Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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