Halting the Fertility Clock With Latest Methods – Part II

Egg freezing option for preserving fertility appears to show better prospects in younger women. Doctors advice woman thirty-five years or lesser must ideally be freezing twelve eggs to have a fifty-fifty chance of a live delivery whereas women in the age group of 36-38 years old would require sixteen eggs iced for optimizing their likelihood of success. This would mean that such females would need to undergo the entire procedure many times in order to stack away adequate eggs.

Several specialists anticipate that in future women in their twenties would opt to freeze their eggs as a routine procedure so that procreation would still be possible when they are in their thirties or older.

There are several other advantages of egg freezing apart from fertility preservation for individual females. With constantly tweaking technology, there is undeniably going to be an influx of egg banks that would be able to cater to needs of sterile couples, gay men pairs and many other people who are intent on becoming parents.

Conception-related Concerns

Specialists recommend that healthy females who are intent on egg freezing to postpone motherhood must be offered in-depth counselling regarding the likely perils and prospects of a successful outcome. Women must be aware of the fact that although egg freezing is a realistic choice yet it is always best to start a family sooner instead of later.

Additional Fertility Preservation Choices

Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation

Chemo and radiation therapy mostly lead to infertility among females undergoing cancer therapy and ovarian tissue cryopreservation appears to be the best bet in such cases. It is an operative method where in removal of tiny slivers of ovarian tissue which contain scores of undeveloped eggs are done by a doctor and frozen prior to onset of therapy.

On conclusion of therapy, when a female intends on getting pregnant, the ovarian tissue post-thawing is sutured back in to the ovary. One benefit of this method which makes it a better choice instead of egg freezing is that it does not need hormonal jabs which could trigger cancerous development. Also specialists point out that there is virtually no egg loss observed in case of ovarian tissue vitrification. This procedure has the potential to gain imminent popularity since a woman would be able to have around 100000 eggs in storage with ovarian tissue and a laparoscopic procedure. Also, the procedure is better and cost-effective as compared to egg-freezing.

The Oncofertility Consortium is a countrywide net of fertility specialists that have commenced offering this procedure at fifty centres, the information of which is obtainable at oncofertility.northwestern.edu

Advancements are additionally being made in cryopreservation of the ovaries in entirety for females who need to undergo cancer therapy.

Ovarian Transplant

Ovarian transplant is another option for women intent on bearing children. At times, the doctor might administer mild immune-suppressant medications for preventing any form of rejection. As a consequence, the organ would function in a normal manner and the female would not experience any unfavourable effects.

Womb Transplant

This method involves transplanting a human uterus and allows females with normal ovulation but with absent, harmed uterus or any irregularity in the uterus to conceive and bear children. Such procedures have been successfully performed in Saudi Arabia.

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