Overview
- Aims to provide balanced information including the limitations and risks associated with the technique? of oocyte cryopreservation
- Author has treated hundreds of women in one of the most prestigious fertility centres in the world
- Information in this book will be useful for both professionals and for women that are considering oocyte cryopreservation
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About this book
This unique book provides expert advice on all the different aspects related to fertility preservation for age related infertility. Although, there is a lot of information available on the Internet and in books about fertility preservation for cancer treatment, little information is available for young women that are confronted with a ticking biological clock. While men have been able to cryopreserve sperm since the 1950s, women have only recently gained the opportunity to preserve their gametes through the egg vitrification technique. Therefore, many women confronted with a risk of imminent fertility loss, such as chemotherapy, are now freezing their oocytes instead of embryos. Successful oocyte cryopreservation offers them a reproductive autonomy independent of men. Moreover, it now enables single women to preserve their reproductive chances. The most important threat for female fertility is ovarian aging as it causes a progressive decline in the reproductive chances. The generaltrend to delay motherhood due to societal changes confronts many women and couples with a diminished fertility. This fertility problem can often not be cured by in vitro fertilization, which makes that an increasing number of women require oocyte donation as the treatment of last resort. In the last few years, fertility centres around the world have started to offer the opportunity cryopreserve oocytes to young, often highly educated, single women. This patient population is unique as compared to other patients in the fertility clinic as they perform a preventive treatment. They are neither confronted with infertility nor are they undergoing a treatment that might cause an imminent treat to their fertility.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dominic Stoop took his medical degree in 2001 and completed his residency in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2007 at the Ghent University, Belgium. He joined the Centre for Reproductive Medicine of the Free University of Brussels in 2008 where he is currently a professor. He is a member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology board-certified subspecialist in reproductive medicine and surgery. His main clinical and research interests include gynaecology and ovary freezing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preventing Age Related Fertility Loss
Editors: Dominic Stoop
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14857-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14856-4Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79205-7Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14857-1Published: 27 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 172
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Reproductive Medicine, Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health