Wenyan Song, Fuli Zhang, Yuan Wang, Hao Shi, Ning Sun, Haixia Jin, Xiaopeng Wang, Yihong Guo, Linli Hu, Jun Zhai, Shanjun Dai, Yile Zhang, Yingchun Su, Guidong Yao, Senlin Shi, Shuang Wen, Ning Song, Zhaoting Wu, Lei Chen, Tingting Cheng, Beijia Kang, Jing Sun, Xianju Huang, Zhimin Sun, Luyao Cheng, Yuling Liang, Yingpu Sun
STUDY QUESTION: Can emergency vitrification protect embryos and oocytes during natural disasters or other events that prevent normal practice to achieve satisfactory embryonic development and clinical outcomes at a later time? SUMMARY ANSWER: Emergency vitrification of oocytes and Day 0-Day 5 (D0-D5) embryos during disasters is a safe and effective protective measure. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: When some destructive events such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other accidents occur, emergency vitrification in embryo laboratories to protect human embryos, oocytes, and sperm is one of the important measures of an IVF emergency plan...
December 4, 2023: Human Reproduction