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  • Title: Blastocyst formation, pregnancy, and birth derived from human oocytes cryopreserved for 5 years.
    Author: Parmegiani L, Fabbri R, Cognigni GE, Bernardi S, Pocognoli P, Filicori M.
    Journal: Fertil Steril; 2008 Nov; 90(5):2014.e7-10. PubMed ID: 18402940.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To report a live birth after the transfer of a single blastocyst derived from a human oocyte cryopreserved for 5 years. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Private assisted reproduction center. PATIENT(S): A 39-year-old woman with tubal infertility and her partner with male-related infertility. INTERVENTION(S): Oocyte cryopreservation (in 1.5 mol/L 1,2-propanediol and 0.3 mol/L sucrose by slow freezing-rapid thawing protocol) when the patient was 34 years old. Oocyte thawing after 5 years of cryostorage. Insemination by intracytoplasmic sperm injection of the three best surviving oocytes, according to the Italian law regulating assisted reproductive technology. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Oocyte survival after thawing. Fertilization, cleavage, and embryo development into blastocyst stage. RESULT(S): Four of six mature (metaphase II) frozen oocytes survived after thawing. Three of them were injected: these three oocytes were fertilized, and one developed into a five-cell embryo on day 3. This embryo developed into blastocyst and was transferred on day 6. A healthy female neonate weighing 3,410 g was born. CONCLUSION(S): After 5 years of storage in liquid nitrogen, cryopreserved oocytes with a slow cooling-rapid thawing protocol can develop in vitro to blastocyst stage and produce a live birth.
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