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41st Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

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Symposia 1 Care and controversies: present and future

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Preservation of fertility

Anderson R

Fertility preservation is a rapidly advancing area of medicine. Its clinical potential in adult women was demonstrated by ovarian function and successful pregnancy following ovarian cortical tissue cyropreservation and replacement in the sheep in the 1990s with the first successful human pregnancy reported in 2004. Since then some 25 babies have been born to women who have had ovarian tissue cryopreserved and subsequently replaced, with most of these women having been treated ...