Egg Freezing offers women planning to have children after the age of 35 the opportunity to effectively slow down their biological clocks. Extend Fertility’s egg freezing services give women the unprecedented chance to store their eggs during their reproductive prime for use when they wish to start or expand their families.

How egg freezing works Treatment in india

• Extract eggs Woman receives drugs to produce multiple eggs. Ultrasound-guided needles are used to harvest eggs from the ovary.
• Identify The eggs, which are in fluid when extracted, are poured onto a flat dish. Individual eggs are identified with a microscope and withdrawn for freezing.
• Prepare for egg freezingBecause ice crystals can form within the eggs and damage them, technicians remove the water from the eggs and bathe them in an ‘antifreeze’ solution before egg freezing. Laboratories vary in how they conduct the egg freezing process and freeze the female eggs. Some prefer a slow egg freezing technique, while others use a flash egg freezing process called vitrification.
• Freeze Eggsare stored in tubes in a liquid nitrogen storage tank.
• Thaw and fertilize each egg, is then thawed and injected with a needle containing a single sperm–a procedure called ICSI. Eggs begin to develop into embryos.
• Implant Embryos are implanted into the uterus using a catheter.

I am in a hurry to begin the egg freezing procedure. How soon can I begin the program?

Program enrollment for qualified individuals is on a first-come, first-served basis. Due to the extraordinary amount of individualized effort devoted to each case, once the monthly limit on patient enrollees has been exceeded, patients waiting to begin will roll over to the following month. Please remember that from the onset of a menstrual period, there is as much as a 21-day hold on treatment while your ovaries are prepared for the necessary stimulation medications. It is suggested that all patients enroll as soon as they are certain of their desire to freeze their eggs and provide us their preferred treatment month. We will do everything possible to accommodate scheduling needs.

Is there any way to know in advance if the eggs will survive the freezing process?

Studies have shown that there is tremendous variability in the ability of eggs to tolerate the freezing process. They have also shown that within a single group of eggs frozen, some will survive and others will not. In those that do survive the freeze and later thaw, some will fertilize when exposed to sperm and others will not. We are working very hard to minimize the variability in responses seen in individual patients and their eggs. The prior survival and fertilization of eggs is a good predictor of subsequent performance as long as a long lapse between procedures (and an increase in the age of the patient) has not occurred.

Conclusions about egg freezing

• Egg freezing for extending female fertility is showing great potential for the future.
• It is currently being used for women with cancer that need treatments that impair their future fertility.
• Although some recent studies report good success rates for IVF with “young” frozen eggs, there is little data on success rates using “older” eggs.
  • Women considering freezing eggs tend to be in their late 30’s and early 40’s.
  • We need more outcome data using frozen eggs in this age group.
• This is an evolving technology with important questions still to be answered before it is “ready for prime time”.