Embryo Banking vs. Egg Banking for Fertility Preservation
It's crucial for women to make informed decisions about fertility preservation. Delaying trying to conceive, relying on egg freezing, or assuming the biological clock…
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Egg Banking: Unlocking Future Hopes and Dreams
For more than 50 years, scientists have been working to perfect the art of freezing and storing a woman's eggs, also known as “egg…
Embryo Banking for Fertility Preservation (FP): Defy the Biological Clock
More and more American women are exploring IVF treatments in their late 30s and in their 40s. This trend often stems from the choice…
IVF with Egg Donation: A Review
Egg donation is when a woman donates her eggs for assisted reproduction or research purposes. In assisted reproduction, it usually involves using IVF technology,…
Staggered-In Vitro Fertilization (ST- IVF) : A Paradigm Shift: Heralded by the Introduction of Ultrarapid Embryo/Egg Freezing (Vitrification)
Cryopreservation of human embryos has been a routine procedure since the early 1980s. Until quite recently, it involved a “conventional” slow freezing process which…
Egg Freezing for Future Fertility
Many patients come to me in their late 30s and 40s to either assess their relative fertility or to start fertility treatments, and…
Egg Freezing and Banking: What are the Merits? (Case Report)
Hi Dr Sher, I am considering pursuing egg freezing in a few months. I had an initial consult with and RE in which…
Selective Banking of Genetically Tested Donor Eggs
 As a woman ages beyond 30 years, the quality of her eggs starts to decline progressively and with it also her fertility potential.…
Embryo Banking/Stockpiling: Slows the “Biological Clock” and offers a Selective Alternative to IVF-Egg Donation
An ever increasing number of American women first seek
Egg Donation-Fashioning Rational Expectations: Preparation; Donor Selection; Using Fresh versus Frozen (Banked) Eggs; Financial/Ethical Considerations; The Process; Outcome!…
For many women, disease, the physiological decline in ovarian reserve (DOR) and spontaneous or pathologically induced menopause will preclude pregnancy using own eggs. For…
Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET): What Does it Involve?
Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) A frozen embryo transfer cycle is initiated by administering an oral contraceptive (OC) to the recipient. This is later…
Violet™ Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Software: A Break-through in the Field of Egg Banking which Reliably Predicts Reproductive Potential by Scoring “Egg Competency”
In order for a human embryo to develop into a viable, healthy pregnancy it needs to be “competent” (capable, upon being transferred to…
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL)
The bottom line is that because of the traumatic effect of freezing on egg viability and “competency” the statistical chance of each frozen/…
COMMERCIAL EGG BANKING FOR FERTILITY PRESERVATION (FP) AND A REPOSITORY FOR DONOR EGGS
For more than a thirty years, attempts by medical scientists to freeze and bank (cryobank) a woman’s eggs have yielded limited success. In fact,…
Egg Freezing: Fertility Preservation (FP) & Commercial Donor Egg Banks
The bottom line is that because of the traumatic effect of freezing on egg viability and “competency” the statistical chance of each frozen/ thawed…