Overnight ovarian tissue transportation for centralized cryobanking: a feasible option.

Liebenthron, Jana; Montag, Markus; Reinsberg, Jochen; Köster, Maria; Isachenko, Vladimir; van der Ven, Katrin; van der Ven, Hans; Krüssel, Jan-Steffen; von Wolff, Michael (2019). Overnight ovarian tissue transportation for centralized cryobanking: a feasible option. Reproductive biomedicine online, 38(5), pp. 740-749. Elsevier 10.1016/j.rbmo.2019.01.006

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RESEARCH QUESTION

Is overnight transportation of ovarian tissue before cryopreservation in a centralized cryobank from the FertiPROTEKT network feasible?

DESIGN

Data from 1810 women with cryopreserved ovarian tissue after overnight transportation from December 2000 to December 2017 were analysed with a focus on transportation, tissue activity parameters and pregnancy, and delivery rates after transplantation.

RESULTS

A total of 92.4% of tissue samples arrived at ideal temperatures of 2-8°C, 0.4% were transported at temperatures lower than ideal and 6.4% were transported at temperatures that were too high, generally due to mishandling of the inlayed cool packs of the transportation boxes. In 62 women, 78 tissue transplantations were carried out. A subgroup of 30 women who underwent a single orthotopic transplantation with fulfilled criteria of a complete follow-up after transplantation until the end of study, a premature ovarian insufficiency after gonadotoxic therapy as well as the absence of pelvic radiation, was further analysed. In this group, transplantations into a peritoneal pocket accounted for 90%. Transplants were still active at 1 year and above after transplantation in 93.3%. Pregnancy and delivery rates were 46.7% and 43.3%, respectively, with one ongoing pregnancy at the end of the study.

CONCLUSIONS

Overnight transportation for central cryobanking is a feasible concept that results in high reproducible success rates through standardized professional tissue freezing and storage.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Gynaecology

UniBE Contributor:

von Wolff, Michael

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1472-6483

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Monika Zehr

Date Deposited:

27 Jan 2020 08:12

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.rbmo.2019.01.006

PubMed ID:

30733076

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Centralized cryobanking Fertility preservation Gonadotoxic therapy Ovarian tissue cryopreservation Ovarian tissue transplantation Overnight transportation

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.138073

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138073

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