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Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility
Increasing numbers of women are undergoing oocyte or tissue cryopreservation for medical or social reasons to increase their chances of having genetic children. Social egg freezing (SEF) allows women to preserve their fertility in anticipation of age-related fertility decline and ineffective fertili...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34360381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158088 |
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author | Varlas, Valentin Nicolae Bors, Roxana Georgiana Albu, Dragos Penes, Ovidiu Nicolae Nasui, Bogdana Adriana Mehedintu, Claudia Pop, Anca Lucia |
author_facet | Varlas, Valentin Nicolae Bors, Roxana Georgiana Albu, Dragos Penes, Ovidiu Nicolae Nasui, Bogdana Adriana Mehedintu, Claudia Pop, Anca Lucia |
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description | Increasing numbers of women are undergoing oocyte or tissue cryopreservation for medical or social reasons to increase their chances of having genetic children. Social egg freezing (SEF) allows women to preserve their fertility in anticipation of age-related fertility decline and ineffective fertility treatments at older ages. The purpose of this study was to summarize recent findings focusing on the challenges of elective egg freezing. We performed a systematic literature review on social egg freezing published during the last ten years. From the systematically screened literature, we identified and analyzed five main topics of interest during the last decade: (a) different fertility preservation techniques, (b) safety of freezing, (c) usage rate of frozen oocytes, (d) ethical considerations, and (e) cost-effectiveness of SEF. Fertility can be preserved for non-medical reasons through oocyte, embryos, or ovarian tissue cryopreservation, with oocyte vitrification being a new and optimal approach. Elective oocyte cryopreservation is better accepted, supports social gender equality, and enhances women’s reproductive autonomy. Despite controversies, planned oocyte cryopreservation appears as a chosen strategy against age-related infertility and may allow women to feel that they are more socially, psychologically, and financially stable before motherhood. |
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spelling | pubmed-83457952021-08-07 Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility Varlas, Valentin Nicolae Bors, Roxana Georgiana Albu, Dragos Penes, Ovidiu Nicolae Nasui, Bogdana Adriana Mehedintu, Claudia Pop, Anca Lucia Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Increasing numbers of women are undergoing oocyte or tissue cryopreservation for medical or social reasons to increase their chances of having genetic children. Social egg freezing (SEF) allows women to preserve their fertility in anticipation of age-related fertility decline and ineffective fertility treatments at older ages. The purpose of this study was to summarize recent findings focusing on the challenges of elective egg freezing. We performed a systematic literature review on social egg freezing published during the last ten years. From the systematically screened literature, we identified and analyzed five main topics of interest during the last decade: (a) different fertility preservation techniques, (b) safety of freezing, (c) usage rate of frozen oocytes, (d) ethical considerations, and (e) cost-effectiveness of SEF. Fertility can be preserved for non-medical reasons through oocyte, embryos, or ovarian tissue cryopreservation, with oocyte vitrification being a new and optimal approach. Elective oocyte cryopreservation is better accepted, supports social gender equality, and enhances women’s reproductive autonomy. Despite controversies, planned oocyte cryopreservation appears as a chosen strategy against age-related infertility and may allow women to feel that they are more socially, psychologically, and financially stable before motherhood. MDPI 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8345795/ /pubmed/34360381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158088 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Varlas, Valentin Nicolae Bors, Roxana Georgiana Albu, Dragos Penes, Ovidiu Nicolae Nasui, Bogdana Adriana Mehedintu, Claudia Pop, Anca Lucia Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title | Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title_full | Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title_fullStr | Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title_short | Social Freezing: Pressing Pause on Fertility |
title_sort | social freezing: pressing pause on fertility |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34360381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158088 |
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