Current approach to fertility preservation by embryo cryopreservation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1496-1502

  Bedoschi, Giuliano ^a,b   Oktay, Kutluk ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Innovation Institute for Fertility and in Vitro Fertilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo cryopreservation; fertility preservation; ovarian damage

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BLEOMYCIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CHLORMETHINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DACARBAZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTRADIOL; ETOPOSIDE; GESTAGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; TAMOXIFEN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENTERITIS; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 84876958819     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.03.020     Document Type: Review

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