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This paper reports on a Canadian study of the views of 15 women who had altruistically donated oocytes to a friend or a relative for family building and 18 women who had received oocytes donated by a friend or a relative towards disclosure of the donation to both the donor-conceived child and the child(ren) of the donor. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with participants either in per...

OBJECTIVE To describe the lived experience of pregnant women who used donor oocytes for conception. DESIGN Qualitative, using a descriptive phenomenologic approach. SETTING Interviews were completed at a location and setting selected by the participant. Of the 16 interviews, 13 were conducted at the participant's home, 1 was conducted at a private office, and 2 were conducted by telephone. ...

Female survivors of cancer in childhood and adolescence who have been treated with bone marrow transplantation including total body irradiation (TBI) are at high risk of developing ovarian follicular depletion and infertility. The lack of oocytes may be compensated for by oocyte donation but these patients also seem to have a uterine factor. Even though oestrogen replacement therapy is given, t...

Objective To determine general attitudes of fertile and infertile women to oocyte donation in a Muslim and secular population. Methods The participants consisted of fertile women (n=133) who had at least one healthy living child spontaneously conceived without any fertility treatment and infertile women (n=133) who were diagnosed with primary infertility. Both groups were evaluated with chart...

BACKGROUND To our knowledge, there is no valid and comprehensive questionnaire that considers attitude toward oocyte donation (OD). Therefore this study has aimed to design and develop a tool entitled attitude toward donation-oocyte (ATOD-O) to measure attitude toward OD. MATERIALS AND METHODS This methodological, qualitative research was undertaken on 15 infertile cases. In addition, we perf...

BACKGROUND Several evidences indicate that premature luteinization (PL) may affect IVF outcome. The primary end-point of the present study was to verify the effect of PL on the pregnancy rate (PR) of our oocyte-donation programme. METHODS PL was defined as serum progesterone > or = 1.2 ng/ml on the day of HCG. We analysed retrospectively 240 oocyte-donation cycles in which 120 women donated t...

Oocyte cryopreservation has great promise for applications in oocyte donation and fertility preservation and for decreasing the number of unused cryopreserved embryos. The Practice Committee has and will continue to review the published medical literature relating to oocyte cryopreservation at regular intervals and is prepared to reconsider its position when evidence warrants.