Fertility Cryopreservation

by Edited by Ri-Cheng Chian , Patrick Quinn

• ISBN13: 9780521517782
• ISBN10: 0521517788
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Protecting the reproductive potential of young patients undergoing cancer therapy is increasingly important. With modern treatment protocols, 80% of patients can be expected to survive. It has been estimated that up to one in 250 young adults will be a survivor of childhood cancer in the future; infertility, however, may be a consequence. As a wide range of fertility preservation methods are increasingly offered by clinicians, this systematic and comprehensive textbook dealing with the cryobiology, technology and clinical approach to this therapy will be essential reading to infertility specialists, embryologists, oncologists, cryobiologists, ObGyns, andrologists, and urologists with an interest in fertility preservation. Fertility Cryopreservation reviews all the techniques of this increasingly important field within reproductive medicine. It covers the basic principles of pertinent cryobiology, and contains major sections on the different therapies available, written by international specialists combining experience from both academic centers and commercial industries.

Author Biography

Ri-Cheng Chian is Scientific Director at the McGill Reproductive Center, McGill University Health Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Patrick Quinn is Vice-President, Research and Development, Sage IVF, CooperSurgical Company, Trumbull, Connecticut, USA.

Table of Contents

Cryobiology

Cryobiology: an overview

Suppression of ice in aqueous solutions and its application to vitrification in an ART setting

Pathway for the movement of water and cryoprotectants in mouse oocytes and embryos at different stages - its relevance to cryopreservation

Cryoprotectants

Cryopreservation of Sperm and Testicular Tissue

Cryopreservation of sperm: an overview

Sperm cryopreservation for donor program

Cryopreservation of surgically retrieved sperm

Testicular tissue cryopreservation

Cryopreservation of Embryos

Cryopreservation of embryos: an overview

Cryopreservation of pronuclear stage human embryos

Cryopreservation of day two and day three embryos

Cryopreservation of blastocysts

Aseptic vitrification of human blastocysts: protocol development and clinical application

Cryopreservation of Oocytes

Cryopreservation of human oocytes: an overview

Cryopreservation of oocytes by slow cooling

Vitrification of human oocytes with different tools

Vitrification of human oocytes using the McGill Cryoleaf

Cryopreservation of human oocytes and embryos by direct plunging into liquid nitrogen and its aseptic approach

Vitrification of human oocytes for a donor program

Obstetric and perinatal outcomes in pregnancies conceived following oocyte cryopreservation

Cryopreservation of Ovarian Tissue

Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue: an overview

In vitro culture of human primordial follicles

Cryobanking of human ovarian tissue: concept of formation and perspectives of development

Transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissues

Whole ovary cryopreservation

Transplantation of whole frozen-thawed ovaries

Ethical considerations in fertility cryopreservation in young cancer patients

Index

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