What is Cryopreservation and its types?
Cryopreservation involves freezing sperms, eggs and embryos at the extremely low temperatures to keep them alive for future use. This technique has become very common today and is offered by companies as benefits to their employees to enable them postpone their planning to conceive a child. The common types of Cryopreservation are:
SPERM Cryopreservation
- Create a sperm bank
- Donate stored sperms
- Use sperms during the treatment if a man is unable to develop semen during the procedure
- Before cancer treatment therapy that severally affects fertility power of a man
- Extract sperms from epididymis or testes
The storage is done for 12 months, and for the chemotherapy, the storage is maintained for around ten years that can even be further extended in few situations.
OCYTE Cryopreservation
OOcyte or Eggs Cryopreservation is applicable on females who need to receive a serious medical treatment for severe diseases for example cancer that may terribly decrease their ability to release eggs thereafter. This method is also significant for females who want to focus on their career and want to put their motherhood on hold. In this procedure, the eggs are excessively developed by females that are then frozen within a couple of hours of retrieval and then stored. In the future, when a female is ready to conceive a child, the frozen eggs are used to fertilize with her partner’s sperms and the received embryo is placed back in her womb.
