Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on March 30, 2007
Human Reproduction 2007 22(6):1796-1797; doi:10.1093/humrep/dem048
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Reply: Cryopreservation of intact human ovary with its vascular pedicle—or cryopreservation of hemi ovaries
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Oh, USA. E-mail: bedaiwymmm@yahoo.com
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Sir,
We would like to thank Professor Donnez and associates for their interest in our manuscript entitled Cryopreservation of intact human ovary with its vascular pedicle. Regarding the questions they raised with respect to our work, our responses are as follows.
First, we need to re-emphasize that this work is purely experimental and the result of the observation that ischemia is responsible for most of the graft failures. This work is simply an evolution of our sheep data published previously. We first described the technique of cryopreserving a whole ovary with