Ovarian Function after Transplantation of Frozen, Banked Autologous Ovarian Tissue

Abstract

December. This temporal sequence of events therefore sug-gests that his tuberculosis most likely developed in the fall and so was not influenced by a possible winter nadir in vi-tamin D 3 , as suggested. Secondary prevention is very important in the control of tuberculosis. Had the child we described been adequately screened for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on his ar-rival from a country with a high incidence of infection and treated appropriately, this outbreak could have been averted. We report the successful transplantation of fro-zen, banked autologous ovarian tissue according to a pro-tocol approved by the institutional review board at our center. The patient was a 29-year-old woman who had under-gone a right salpingo-oophorectomy and wedge resection of the left ovary at the age of 17 years in order to remove der-moid cysts. Exercise-induced hypothalamic amenorrhea de-veloped in her early 20s. At the age of 28 years, a left sal-pingo-oophorectomy was performed because of intractable menometrorrhagia. At that time, multiple pieces of ovari-an cortex that were 2 by 2 mm to 5 by 10 mm were cryo-preserved in 1.5 M propanediol with the use of slow-freeze protocol.