Egg freezing now makes easier and more successful results with the progress of technology. There is a risk that women who undertake a major role in reproduction have a reduced fertility in later ages. The issue of egg-freezing and the problem of diminished egg quality or quality is getting out of hand.
When is egg freezing applied?
- Before you see cancer treatment
- When the egg reserve is low
- In case of hereditary premature menopause in the family
- It is applied before women’s surgery which may affect the egg reserve.
The woman has been on hormone therapy for about 10 days with the initiation of regulin. Eggs obtained as a result of treatment are frozen in private laboratories by vitrification method. Today, eggs are frozen faster by vitrification method, which increases the success rate.
The egg cell contains a lot of water in it. In the old times of slow freezing, these eggs were damaging to their cells. When you are thawed, chances of getting pregnancy are pretty low. Ice crystals do not form when the eggs are frozen faster by vitrification method. The eggs are stored frozen at -196 degrees.
After the ovaries are thawed, the sperm obtained from the coitus is fertilized by microinjection method. The resulting embryos are transferred after being grown in a special laboratory environment. The transfer process is at the end of 3rd or 5th day.
The pregnancy rate obtained from frozen eggs is very close to the pregnancy rate obtained with fresh embryos.