Fertility cryopreservation

• Other Authors: Chian, Ri-Cheng (Editor), Quinn, Patrick 1946- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010
• Series: Cambridge medicine
• Subjects: Infertility > therapy; Infertility > etiology; Neoplasms > complications; Cryopreservation > methods; Antineoplastic Agents > adverse effects; Infertility > prevention; Generative organs > cryopreservation; Fertility > radiation effects
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"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 futur...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Part I. Cryobiology: 1. Cryobiology: an overview Ri-Cheng Chian; 2. Suppression of ice in aqueous solutions and its application to vitrification in an ART setting Patrick Quinn; 3. Pathway for the movement of water and cryoprotectants in mouse oocytes and embryos at different stages - its relevance to cryopreservation Magosaburo Kasai and Keisuke Edashige; 4. Cryoprotectants Jason E. Swain and Gary D. Smith; Part II. Cryopreservation of Sperm and Testicular Tissue: 5. Cryopreservation of sperm: an overview Fady Shehata and Ri-Cheng Chian; 6. Sperm cryopreservation for donor program Zheng Li and Peng Xu; 7. Cryopreservation of surgically retrieved sperm Peter T. K. Chan; 8. Testicular tissue cryopreservation Ariel Revel and Javier Mejia; Part III. Cryopreservation of Embryos: 9. Cryopreservation of embryos: an overview David H. Edgar and Debra A. Gook; 10. Cryopreservation of pronuclear stage human embryos Barry Behr and Yimin Shu; 11. Cryopreservation of day two and day three embryos Yunxia Cao and Zhiguo Zhang; 12. Cryopreservation of blastocysts Yoshiharu Morimoto; 13. Aseptic vitrification of human blastocysts: protocol development and clinical application P. Vanderzwalmen, L. Grobet, Y. Prapas, P. Frias and N. Zech;
• Part IV. Cryopreservation of Oocytes: 14. Cryopreservation of human oocytes: an overview Ri-Cheng Chian; 15. Cryopreservation of oocytes by slow cooling Andrea Borini and Giovanni Coticchio; 16. Vitrification of human oocytes with different tools Patrick Quinn; 17. Vitrification of human oocytes using the McGill Cryoleaf Jack Yu Jen Huang, Seang Lin Tan and Ri-Cheng Chian; 18. Cryopreservation of human oocytes and embryos by direct plunging into liquid nitrogen and its aseptic approach Evgenia Isachenko, Vladimir Isachenko and Jurgen M. Weiss; 19. Vitrification of human oocytes for a donor program Elkin Lucena, Carolina Lucena and Sandra Mojica; 20. Obstetric and perinatal outcomes in pregnancies conceived following oocyte cryopreservation William Buckett and Ri-Cheng Chian; Part V. Cryopreservation of Ovarian Tissue: 21. Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue: an overview Jacques Donnez, Pascale Jadoul, Olivier Donnez, Anne-Sophie van Eyck, Jean Squifflet and Marie-Madeleine Dolmans; 22. In vitro culture of human primordial follicles Benoit Schubert and Johan Smitz; 23. Cryobanking of human ovarian tissue: concept of formation and perspectives of development Vladimir Isachenko, Friedrich Gagsteiger, Evgenia Isachenko and Juergen Weiss; 24. Transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissues Dror Meirow; 25. Whole ovary cryopreservation Jason G. Bromer and Pasquale Patrizio; 26. Transplantation of whole frozen-thawed ovaries Amir Arav and Yehudit Natan; 27. Ethical considerations in fertility cryopreservation in young cancer patients Edwin C. Hui; Index.