Human Reproduction, Vol 12, 2006-2010, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
E Van den Abbeel, M Camus, L Van Waesberghe, P Devroey and AC Van Steirteghem
In our centre, embryos are judged to have survived cryopreservation if at
least half of the initial number of blastomeres remain intact. Therefore
both fully intact and partially damaged embryos are transferred. The aim of
this study was to investigate the viability of partially damaged human
embryos after cryopreservation. We retrospectively analysed the
implantation and in-vivo development of embryos which were either fully
intact or had lost some blastomeres after cryopreservation. Oocytes were
collected following stimulation with the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone
(GnRH)-agonist Buserelin and human menopausal gonadotrophin. Supernumerary
multicellular embryos with not more than 20% of their volume filled with
anucleate fragments were frozen on day 2 or day 3 of the cycle using a slow
cooling procedure with dimethylsulphoxide as the cryoprotectant. Following
slow thawing, 431 fully intact embryos were transferred in 314 embryo
transfer procedures and 488 partially damaged embryos were transferred in
327 such procedures. The percentage of gestational sacs with fetal
heartbeat obtained after transfer of fully intact embryos was almost three
times higher than that after transfer of partially damaged embryos (11.4
versus 3.5%). Forty-five children (birth rate 10% per embryo transfer) were
born after transfer of fully intact embryos and 14 after transfer of
embryos from which some blastomeres had been lost following
cryopreservation. In conclusion, although children have been delivered
after transfer of partially damaged embryos, the aim of a cryopreservation
programme must be to obtain fully intact embryos after thawing.
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Viability of partially damaged human embryos after cryopreservation
Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital and Medical School, Dutch-speaking Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Belgium.
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