Andrea Borini – författare

Oocyte cryopreservation entails important potential advantages for humanIVF, offering a less ethically disputable alternative to embryo cryopreservation,simplifying and making safer oocyte donation, and giving an opportunity forfertility preservation to women at risk of premature ovarian failure as an effectof genetic factors or chemo- or radiotherapies. Oocyte cryopreservation couldalso meet the expectations of women wishing to preserve their fertility forsocial reasons. In the last few years, advances in cryopreservationmethodologies have dramatically improved the efficiency of oocytecryopreservation, leading to the birth of over a thousand babies andchallenging the supremacy of embryo cryopreservation as the preferredform of fertility preservation. This text has been conceived with the aim of offering a comprehensive view of the state of the art of oocyte cryopreservation. It covers fundamental concepts of low temperature storage (controlled rate slow cooling andvitrification), aspects of oocyte physiology relevant to the process ofcryopreservation, essential biological and clinical evidence, and ethicalimplications of oocyte cryopreservation, thereby providing a completeoverview of progress in this strategy in assisted reproduction.

Oocyte cryopreservation entails important potential advantages for humanIVF, offering a less ethically disputable alternative to embryo cryopreservation,simplifying and making safer oocyte donation, and giving an opportunity forfertility preservation to women at risk of premature ovarian failure as an effectof genetic factors or chemo- or radiotherapies. Oocyte cryopreservation couldalso meet the expectations of women wishing to preserve their fertility forsocial reasons. In the last few years, advances in cryopreservationmethodologies have dramatically improved the efficiency of oocytecryopreservation, leading to the birth of over a thousand babies andchallenging the supremacy of embryo cryopreservation as the preferredform of fertility preservation. This text has been conceived with the aim of offering a comprehensive view of the state of the art of oocyte cryopreservation. It covers fundamental concepts of low temperature storage (controlled rate slow cooling andvitrification), aspects of oocyte physiology relevant to the process ofcryopreservation, essential biological and clinical evidence, and ethicalimplications of oocyte cryopreservation, thereby providing a completeoverview of progress in this strategy in assisted reproduction.

This concise and practical book is the first of its kind to examine the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in relation to blood-borne infectious diseases: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV). The book opens with a discussion of the impact of these viruses on male and female fertility, followed by specific chapters of each of them, including ART with HIV and HCV serodiscordant couples (where either the male or female is positive) and the detection and impact of HBV and HCV in human gametes and embryos. An important character on laboratory safety when performing ART with blood-borne viruses follows, and the book concludes with a discussion of ART in austere and resource-poor settings, where these infections are often dominant due to lack of treatment and access to vaccines. Written and edited by an international array of experts in reproductive medicine, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Infectious Diseases explores questions, techniques, and related issues with the aim of effectively helping clinicians working with serodiscordant couples wishing to have children.