Egg Banking

If you are looking for a pioneer in the field of egg freezing and banking, you come to the right place. Xpert Fertility Care is now offering a breakthrough for fertility treatment, egg freezing using oocyte vitrification.

 
As more women today are postponing childbearing because they are focused on a career, or because they simply haven’t met the right person,egg freezing is becoming more relevant and in demand as many women are facing the real challenge of having successful, healthy pregnancies later in life. For these women, egg freezing is revolutionary, not only in the technological advancement, but also in the choices it allows them to delay the biological clock.
Until recently, few fertility centers have had the experience or capability to offer egg freezing. Xpert Fertility Care now delivers a breakthrough technology that allows women to freeze and store their eggs until a pregnancy is desired. At that time, the eggs are thawed, fertilized and transferred to the uterus as embryos.

Consisting of more than 90% water, previous egg freezing techniques resulted in the formation of ice crystals, destroying cell membranes and contributing to the low success rates. The advancement of vitrification goes a step beyond the slower freeze methods, which have been traditionally used to freeze sperm and embryos. The slower freeze methods have proven less desirable for preserving human eggs, because of the increased damage risk of ice crystals forming within the egg upon freezing. Vitrification is now the preferred method of fast-freezing technique that cools the egg at a rate of 10,000[deg] C/minute. In comparison, the slow-freezing technique previously used cooled the egg at a rate of 0.3[deg] C/minute. The difference in freeze time dramatically prevents ice crystal formation, hence, minimizes the damage to the oocytes (human eggs) 

Freezing eggs by vitrification helps extending human fertility for patients who are at risk for losing their ovarian function (prior to chemotherapy, for example) or who wish to "bank" their younger eggs for future use.

Over 50,000 reproductive-aged women are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. For these cancer patients, egg freezing offers the option to preserve fertility before undergoing cancer treatments when permanent infertility is a high probability due to destruction of the eggs by surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

A patient’s eggs are retrieved prior to cancer treatments and cryopreserved. After completion of cancer treatments and the restoration of health, the eggs are thawed and injected with a single sperm (ICSI) to achieve fertilization, and the resulted embryos are then transferred to the uterus.

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It takes approximately four to six weeks to complete the egg freezing cycle, which follows the same protocol as IVF. The cost of egg freezing is approximately $8,000.00.
 

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