What is it about?
The historic and current importance of Vitrification technology for human embryos, gametes and reproductive tissue is reviewed in this candid publication discussing this revolutionary freeze preservation procedure. In essence, vitrification is a cryopreservation procedure that minimizes damaging ice crystal formation. The reliability and success of embryo vitrification has clearly revolutionized the ART/IVF industry in manner akin to Sperm injection in the 1990's.
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Why is it important?
This paper provides an informative, honest, non-political assessment of the pros and cons of this freeze-preservation technology, especially as it applies to its growing use with egg freezing. Most importantly, it questions whether Elective Oocyte Cryopreservation is truly non-experimental or ethical procedure in clinical practice.
Perspectives
The impact of vitrification to insuring successful IVF outcomes, especially in conjunction with the genetic testing of embryos, is similar to the importance of ICSI to achieving fertilization in infertile men. Where this review of vitrification deviates from other publications is in its historic insight to its novel development to the current controversial widespread marketing and clinical application in elective freeze preservation, questioning its ethics and non-experimental nature.
Mitchel Schiewe
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This page is a summary of: Vitrification: the pioneering past to current trends and perspectives of cryopreserving human embryos, gametes and reproductive tissue, Journal of Biorepository Science for Applied Medicine, September 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/bsam.s139376.
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