Exciting new advances in the ability to successfully cryopreserve (freeze) human eggs
has led to new work aimed at allowing for further advances in our ability to freeze and
store such human eggs. World reknowned scientists, physicians and cryobiologists have come
together at the Fertility Institutes to offer patients with a variety of medical
indications the ability to preserve their unfertilized eggs in a frozen state. Such
frozen storage allows women the opportunity to potentially preserve their fertility by
suspending their eggs in time, potentially allowing the fertility potential of the human
egg to be freed of the hardships and decline in fertility that the natural aging process
causes. We also offer those women in need of donor eggs the choice of frozen and
available prescreened frozen eggs donated by young, volunteer University students.
For those in need of donor eggs, it is our hope that this new process will eliminate the
concern over donor availability by obtaining and freezing a large selection of donor
eggs from highly qualified university donors. Such cryopreservation additionally adds to
the safety of egg donation. We have received research funding that allows us to offer
investigationally cryopreserved donor eggs to qualified recipients at a reduced charge.
If interested, please call today.
For young women seeking to guard and extend their fertility, egg freezing offers perhaps
the greatest advance in fertility preservation in the history of modern medicine. Every
day, modern informed, forward looking women are helping assure their future fertility
potential at our center. Unlike many unproven programs offering egg freezing, the
fertility institutes has babies born following oocyte cryopreservation, with additional
ongoing pregnancies in progress. We offer the lowest price anywhere for this technology
thanks to industry research grants we have received that subsidize the costs of services
for all patients.
In recognition of the opinion of the american society for reproductive medicine (ASRM)
that oocyte cryopreservation still be deemed investigational, our center operates all of
it's egg freezing protocols under an approved IRB research protocol. It is vitally
important for those considering egg cryopreservation (freezing) to assure that a center
that they choose to provide these services does so under the observant eye of such an
"institutional review board (IRB)". This term indicates that all work on the freezing
and storage of eggs is done using techniques that attempt to assure your best chances for
success as well as for the long term safety of your eggs. There are current egg freezing
programs in the u.S. That operate with no IRB approval or oversight. Ask any program you
may be considering to provide you a copy of their IRB approval certificate to assure
that your eggs are being handled in a manner approved by the american society for
reproductive medicine. Our center has IRB approval and our certificate is available upon
request.
We concur with some qualifications with the current fertility society consensus that
women should be fully advised that egg freezing while young may or may not provide them
an enhanced chance of conception if those preserved eggs are used later in life. Our
experience thus far with egg freezing has been excellent, and we remain encouraged by
ongoing progress in this exciting area.
The pages that follow will explain the details of our human egg freezing program
protocols and provide you with information about your possible decision to
participate in our highly acclaimed and respected program.
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