San Diego Egg Freezing & Fertility Preservation
In recent years, the process of successfully freezing human eggs has been achieved. A patient first undergoes the IVF treatment, up to the stage of egg retrieval. In order to improve success rates, we will prescribe ovulation stimulation medications as in a typical IVF cycle. This produces a large number of mature eggs which can then be retrieved and frozen. At a later date, the eggs can then be thawed, fertilized, cultured and finally placed in the uterus which typically results in a successful term pregnancy.
Human eggs result in one baby for every four eggs retrieved from a 20 year old woman, but only one baby in 10 to 15 eggs from a 35 year old woman. In a 45 year old woman, the odds reduce dramatically to one baby in 100 to 150 eggs. Also, as women age, they tend to produce fewer eggs even when given ovulation medications. We cannot guarantee success, and therefore, we encourage women to bank their eggs as young and as often as they are able.
Women may urgently need to bank their eggs if they have been diagnosed with a disease such as cancer, any autoimmune disease that may require chemotherapy or radiation, or any other problem requiring the surgical removal of their ovaries.
In other cases women who feel that they are aging, but have no current prospects for starting a family often seek our services to freeze their eggs while they are still young. Thereby hoping to ensure better fertilization success rates when the eggs are thawed at a later date. The younger a patient is when eggs are frozen, the better the odds for success.
Dr. Rakoff has had many years of experience working with the Hematology Oncology Department at Scripps Clinic. Consequently, he has been a member of the Fertility Cryopreservation study groups of the ASRM.
Now i
n private practice, he has the added advantages of working with the support and experienced egg freezing Embryologists at the San Diego Fertility Center.
As stated above, the fertility potential of an egg decreases as women get older. This has been observed for many years and in many different countries. Newer data developed by geneticists, such as those at the Gene Security Network (GSN), have also shown an increasing percentage of embryo chromosomal abnormalities grown from eggs retrieved from older women. Consequently, Dr. Rakoff is available now to help interested women preserve their fertility with our modern egg freezing technology.
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Hello,
I am I.O.’s mother. She was a patient of Dr. Rakoff for a very successful fertility treatment last month. I just wanted to let you know that she had her stem cell transplant at the Scripps Green Hospital on Nov. 24.
She is on her day 15 and out of the transplant is awesome. We are all happy about it. The transplant is en-grafting very well in her bone marrow and we look forward to leave the hospital next Monday. We’ll be staying at La Jolla for her medical visit for a couple of months.
I will greatly appreciate it if you can forward this to Dr. Rakoff or hell him about this. We are very grateful with all you for your kindness and attention. I also like that you also pass along the news. Everyone was very nice and warm with us.. Thank you very much for everything you’ve done for my daughter, she says “Hi” to all of you. Things are really going better for her. Thank God she will soon be back to her normal life and the fulfillment of all her dreams.
Thank you guys!! You are great!!!
