Testicular
cryopreservation aims at the preservation of fertility in children and
prepubertal boys, subjected to gonadotoxic anti-cancer therapy, hematopoieticstem cells transplantation and other reasons of intensive chemotherapy.
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Further indications could
differ from country to another, based on the available medical regulations. Testicular
cryopreservation can be performed using the slow freezing technique, where a
programmable controlled temperature change can be applied, or the Vitrification
technique, where the testicular tissue is equilibrated with suitable
concentrations of cryoprotectants and directly plunged into liquid nitrogen. Recently,
the technique of cryopreservation has been tried with animals and humans,
applying both slow freezing and Vitrification techniques, with the results of
Vitrification are comparable to those of slow freezing. Read more>>>>>
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