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Management of fertility preservation in prepubertal patients : 5 years' experience at the Catholic University of Louvain.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Management of fertility preservation in prepubertal patients : 5 years' experience at the Catholic University of Louvain.
المصدر: Human reproduction (Oxford, England), Vol. 26, no. 4, p. 737-47 (2011)
بيانات النشر: Oxford University Press 2011
تفاصيل مُضافة: UCL - SSS/IREC/GYNE - Pôle de Gynécologie
UCL - SSS/IREC/CHEX - Pôle de chirgurgie expérimentale et transplantation
UCL - (SLuc) Service de gynécologie et d'andrologie
UCL - (SLuc) Service d'urologie
Wyns, Christine
Curaba, Mara
Petit, Sylvie
Vanabelle, Bernard Joseph
Laurent, Pascale
Wese, François-Xavier
Donnez, Jacques
نوع الوثيقة: Electronic Resource
مستخلص: BACKGROUND Since prepubertal boys cannot benefit from sperm banking, a potential alternative strategy for fertility preservation involves immature testicular tissue (ITT) banking aimed at preservation of spermatogonial stem cells. Survival of spermatogonia has been demonstrated after ITT freezing, which is considered ethically acceptable. We report the results of a pilot program set up for fertility preservation in prepubertal boys. METHODS All boys undergoing ITT cryobanking from May 2005 were identified from our clinical register. Data were collected from medical files. RESULTS Testicular tissue was retrieved from 52 prepubertal patients under 12 years of age and 10 peripubertal patients aged between 12 and 16 years, in whom no spermatozoa were identified in testicular biopsies. Malignant disease accounted for 80.6% of cases; the remaining patients suffered from benign disorders requiring gonadotoxic treatments. Mean ages, Tanner stages and occurrence rates of urogenital pathology were 6.43 ± 3.32 and 14 ± 1.23 years, I and I-IV, and 13.5 and 20% for pre- and peripubertal patients, respectively. Mean volumes of removed tissue were 20.1 ± 8.6 and 42.4 ± 15.6 mm(3) for pre- and peripubertal patients, respectively. No complications occurred during or after tissue retrieval and 93.5% of referred patients accepted ITT storage. The presence of spermatogonia, and thus the potential for later tissue use, was established in all of these patients. CONCLUSIONS The majority of cryopreserved samples showed reproductive potential. Storage was accepted by most parents. All parents and children considered this fertility preservation strategy a positive approach.
مصطلحات الفهرس: Belgium, Biopsy, Semen Preservation, Spermatogonia - pathology, Testis, Tissue Banks, Universities, Child, Child, Preschool, Cryopreservation, Fertility - physiology, Humans, Infant, Infertility - pathology, Male, Immature testicular tissue, Human, Fertility preservation, info:eu-repo/semantics/article
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/82442
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الإتاحة: Open access content. Open access content
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ملاحظة: English
أرقام أخرى: UCDLC oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:82442
boreal:82442
info:doi/10.1093/humrep/deq387
info:pmid/21227939
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urn:EISSN:1460-2350
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المصدر المساهم: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
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