Boston IVF, Frozen Eggs and a Pregnancy

Filed in archive Cases , Diagnostics , Studies on April 8, 2007

One of America's most successful fertility centers, Boston IVF is internationally renowned for its technologically advanced treatments and offers patients the opportunity to participate in research studies on fertility.

For the first time, the first pregnancy in Massachusetts to result from egg freezing came from a participant in Boston IVF's fully enrolled egg freezing study.

It seems impossible to freeze a woman's egg without destroying it. An egg cell is the largest cell in a human body which is comprised mostly of water. Successfully freezing it without destruction is a difficult and delicate process.

Freezing eggs is an option to suspend a woman's biological clock. Women who want to become pregnant at a later time (i.e. cancer patients who may become sterile from chemotherapy) would benefit from this procedure.

Boston IVF uses a technology which replaces the fluid (water in the eggs) with molecules that make the egg less vulnerable to freezing and more viable for fertilization once they are thawed at a time in the future.

The pregnancy that came out of a frozen egg recently announced is a major milestone in this area of research, offering many women the potential to circumvent their ticking biological clock if needed.

Those who may be interested in exploring the option of egg freezing or other
Boston IVF studies can contact Rhonda Gannon at 781-434-6554 for more information.

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