ISSN 1518 0557
Cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos: implications on ART treatments

2013; 17
Fabiany Marestone Gonçalves, Vinicius Bonato da Rosa, Jose Augusto Lucca Neto, Alessandro Schuffner
JBRA Assist. Reprod. 2013; 17 (4):236-239

Received January 01, 2013
Accepted June 06, 2013
Abstract

Today many couples struggling to get pregnant. The treatment of assisted reproduction has been one of the alternatives to achieve the long awaited pregnancy. A technique used to supplement the in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is the cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos. The technology used by more than 10 years was slow freezing, however, the method has been improved, so the vitrification has shown better results. Cryopreservation of embryos following as the top choice of couples undergoing treatment for IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), however, vitrification of oocytes is becoming a promising trend to be less ethically troubling.


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doi: 10.5935/1518-0557.20130067

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