Survival rate of human oocytes and pregnancy outcome after vitrification using slush nitrogen in assisted reproductive technologies

Autor: Dong Ryul Lee, Hyung-Min Chung, Tae Ki Yoon, Soo Kyung Cha, Woo Sik Lee, Kwang Yul Cha
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Fertility and Sterility. 88:952-956
ISSN: 0015-0282
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.071
Popis: Objective To report the survival rate of oocytes and the rate of successful pregnancies obtained from super-rapid cooling of oocytes using slush nitrogen (SN 2 ). Design Prospective clinical research. Setting A university-affiliated hospital. Patient(s) Twenty-eight infertile women who underwent 30 cycles of IVF-ET using previously vitrified oocytes. Intervention(s) Oocytes were vitrified by super-rapid cooling using SN 2 . Main Outcome Measure(s) Morphological normality of thawed oocytes and clinical outcome. Result(s) In 30 cycles of ovarian stimulation for IVF, 364 surplus oocytes from 28 patients were vitrified using SN 2 . Three hundred two (85.1% ± 2.9%) of the oocytes survived after warming. Fertilization and cleavage rates were 77.4% ± 3.5% (168/218) and 94.3% ± 2.1% (158/168), respectively. Thirteen pregnancies (43.3%) resulted from 30 uterine transfers of 120 embryos with an implantation rate of 14.2% (17/120). There were no differences between the pregnancy rate after vitrification/warming and that obtained from routine noncryopreserved oocytes. Conclusion(s) The present report suggests that super-rapid cooling may improve the clinical efficacy of human oocyte vitrification and may be a valuable tool for human assisted reproductive technologies.
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