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Infertility Solutions' Cryolaboratory

Infertility Solutions cryobank provides freezing and storage of sperm for men who require chemotherapy or radiotherapy with the potential for causing their sterility. Frozen sperm can be used to achieve pregnancy after the man has recovered from his underlying disease. Most commonly we freeze sperm from men with Hodgkin's disease and with testicular cancer. Some men also choose to cryopreserve their sperm prior to having a vasectomy.

Embryos can also be frozen and stored for patients who produce excess embryos with in vitro fertilization at Infertility Solutions. Cryopreservation of embryos can decrease the cost of achieving pregnancy by providing several tries at pregnancy from a single IVF cycle. It can also help decrease the risk of high order multiple pregnancies. The best results can be obtained using embryos frozen on day 1 after IVF. Good results can also be obtained using embryos frozen on day 5 or 6. The technology for effectively freezing unfertilized eggs is still being developed.

We also store donor sperm that has been purchased from commercial sperm banks. Primarily this serves to simplify our donor insemination program for our patients. However, some of our patients will also buy additional specimens from a donor used to achieve pregnancy so that they can utilize the same donor to achieve additional pregnancies.

Testicular biopsy specimens can also be stored and used to fertilize eggs of a partner in the situation where a man does not produce sperm in his ejaculate. This is a component of our TESE program.

Cryopreserved sperm, embryos and tissue can be stored virtually forever. Specimens are stored in liquid nitrogen at a temperature (-196C) below that required for chemical reactions to take place.

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