Journal of Blood & Lymph

Noriko Kagawa

Publications

• Case Report
  Successful Ovarian Vitrification and Back-Transplantation to Preserve Fertility in a Patient Requiring Chemotherapy for Malignant Lymphoma
  Author(s): Iwaho Kikuchi, Noriko Kagawa, Sherman Silber, Yasushi Isobe, Masashige Kuwayama and Satoru TakedaIwaho Kikuchi, Noriko Kagawa, Sherman Silber, Yasushi Isobe, Masashige Kuwayama and Satoru Takeda
  
  For women with hematologic malignancy anticipating chemotherapy or radio therapy but wishing to preserve fertility, it is preferable that recovery from oophorectomy be as rapid as possible. Considering Reduced-Port Surgery (RPS) to be potentially suitable for such patients, we used RPS for a patient with malignant lymphoma scheduled for pre-bone marrow transplantation chemotherapy. The patient was a 28-year-old woman, gravida 0, who had requested fertility preservation. Thus, with ethics committee approval, the left ovary was removed by RPS, and ovarian cortex with primordial ovarian follicles was cryopreserved by vitrification. The cortex was divided into 12 pieces, 1 cm×1 cm×1 mm each, placed in a container, and stored in liquid nitrogen. The patient’s post-bone marrow transplantation course was good. Because she was judged to have lost ovarian function, ovarian ba.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7831.1000116

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