Female and Male Fertility Preservation

Female and Male Fertility Preservation

Female Fertility Preservation

• What if I’m diagnosed with cancer and I’m not yet a mother?
• What if I’m a young woman who doesn’t want to get pregnant yet?

If you find yourself in either of these situations, the IECH Fertility Center can help.

Oocyte and ovarian tissue cryopreservation is a modern option to preserve fertility in women. This means that in the future, when you’re ready to become pregnant, you’ll have the same chances as you did when the eggs were preserved.

There are two cryopreservation techniques:

• Oocyte vitrification
• Ovarian tissue cryopreservation

In oocyte vitrification, eggs are aspirated from ovarian follicles and rapidly frozen. This minimizes the formation of ice crystals, preserving the cellular structure and improving egg quality for future use.

This technique is suitable for women between 18 and 38 years old, with good success rates. It requires a prior medical evaluation and a treatment cycle of about two weeks to retrieve the eggs.

According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, egg vitrification is the ideal and non-experimental technique for patients wishing to preserve fertility.

Ovarian tissue freezing is an experimental technique in which healthy ovarian tissue is removed via microsurgery and frozen. One of its key advantages—beyond enabling pregnancy—is the potential to restore previous ovarian function.

At IECH, we offer a special program for patients diagnosed with cancer or other conditions that may impair fertility.
If you’d like more information, we invite you to schedule a fertility preservation consultation, where your current fertility status will be evaluated and our specialists will explain your available options in detail.

Male Fertility Preservation

Sperm storage is one of the best ways to protect future reproductive potential. Cryopreservation is recommended in several situations, such as:

• Undergoing cancer treatment
• Scheduled for testicular or prostate surgery
• Wanting to store sperm before a vasectomy
• Having oligospermia (low sperm count) and needing backup for treatment
• Working in a high-risk occupation

Semen samples are stored in a sperm bank dedicated to preserving male fertility. Samples are frozen and kept at -196 °C in liquid nitrogen storage tanks. This safe and well-established technique allows for indefinite storage with high post-thaw sperm survival rates.

IECH has its own sperm bank, offering high-quality service with cutting-edge technology and over 20 years of experience in sperm storage.