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FERTILITY AND STERILITY
Volume 93, Issue 2, Pages 467-474Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.094
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Human oocyte cryopreservation; vitrification; electron microscope grid; ethylene glycol; clinical outcome
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- Organon USA Inc.
- Schering-Plough Corporation
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Objective: To determine the efficiency of our vitrification technique when applied in young fertile women. Design: Clinical research and application. Setting: In vitro fertilization center. Patient(s): Twenty-one women were recruited from the navy community with 19 patients finishing the study. Intervention(s): Vitrified oocytes with use of the electron microscopic grid method were warmed 6 months after vitrification. Surviving metaphase II oocytes were microinjected for fertilization, and clinical results were evaluated. Main Outcome Measure(s): Survival, fertilization, and cleavage rate. Pregnancy and implantation rate. Result(s): Three hundred ninety-five oocytes were warmed, of which 320 oocytes (81.0%) survived. Two hundred eighty-five metaphase 11 oocytes were microinjected for fertilization; 206 of them (72.3%) fertilized, and 53 embryos were transferred to 19 patients (in 20 warming cycles). Twenty-four of 53 transferred embryos (45.3%) implanted as confirmed by ultrasound examination. Of the 20 transfers, 16 resulted in clinical pregnancy (80%), 3 miscarried (15%), and 13 (65%) went on to produce 20 live births, respectively. This is much higher in comparison with our previous data using supernumerary oocytes where the rates of implantation and pregnancy were 6% and 21%. Live-birth rates per warmed oocyte and per injected oocyte were 5.1% and 7.2%, respectively. Conclusion(S): High pregnancy and implantation rates were observed after 6 months of cryopreservation by vitrification when oocytes from fertile woman were used. Proper screening of candidates for oocyte cryopreservation is of crucial importance to assure a favorable pregnancy outcome. (Fertil Steril (R) 2010,93:467-74. (C)2010 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine.)
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