Fertility Preservation

Timely or premature ovarian aging, gonadotoxic treatments or ovarian surgery might lead to diminished or complete loss of fertility. The ongoing development of modern technologies that enable cryopreservation of the sperm, oocytes, ovarian tissue or the embryo has led to implementation of these advanced techniques into routine clinical practice when required. The need for the data on the outcome of these procedures is essential in developing evidence-based clinical guidelines and clinical management. Documentation and analysis of the outcome of fertility preservation procedures, innovations in the techniques used, evaluation of the efficacy and safety of the implemented clinical approaches will be very useful in guiding the health service providers working in this area.

Fertility preservation techniques are improving however the data on the outcome of the currently used and developing techniques is still lacking. The goal is to obtain the most recent data on the related subject, the outcome of the current approaches.

The scope of the research topic covers oncofertility, fertility preservation, oocyte cryopreservation, premature overian failure, aging, gonadotoxic factors, embryo cryopreservation, ovarian transposition, fertility-sparing gynecological surgery, oncofertility, ovarian reserve.

The proposed type of manuscripts are Case Report, Clinical Trial, Community Case Study, General Commentary, Mini Review, Original Research, Policy and Practice Reviews, Review, Study Protocol, Systematic Review, Technology.

Keywords: Fertility, Fertility preservation, oocyte cryoperservation, premature overian failure, aging, gonadotoxic factors, embryo cryopreservation, ovarian transposition, fertility-sparing gynecological surgery, oncofertility, ovarian reserve

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