Social freezing in Switzerland and worldwide - A blessing for women today?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wunder, Dorothea ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethics; Fertility preservation; IVF ICSI; Non medical reasons; Oocyte freezing; Oocyte vitrification; Social freezing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; FETAL WELL BEING; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARIAN PRESERVATION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMIPARA; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SOCIAL FREEZING; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION; WORKLOAD; AGE; ETHICS; FEMALE; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTOR; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84877716612     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13746     Document Type: Article

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