Egg Freezing (Oocyte Cryopreservation)

What is Egg Freezing?

Egg Freezing is a technique where in mature eggs are collected from the ovaries and cooled to sub zero temperatures and stored for future use.

Indications of egg freezing
  • 1. Women sometimes, have to focus on their careers and want to conceive at a later stage. But as the female age advances, the egg count and quality decreases. This makes it more difficult to conceive, with an increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities and miscarriages.
  • 2. Women who have not found the right partner and their biological age is ticking away, may consider to freeze egg at younger age
  • 3. Women diagnosed with cancers and have not completed family yet may freeze egg prior to commencing cancer therapy
  • 4. Prior to surgery to ovaries that can reduce her ovarian reserve

Steps in egg freezing

What are the chances of pregnancy after egg freezing?

Risks to the women or child born out of frozen eggs

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