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Oocyte Retrieval in Egg Donation

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Today, it has become well established and successful representing approximately 14% of all ART treatments in Spain (according to the national registry of the Spanish Society of Fertility, SEF, available at http://www.registrosef.com) and 10% in the USA [1, 2]. Its use has been steadily increasing due to sociological changes that resulted in a delayed age of motherhood in modern society which nowadays is often desired at ages where women are less fertile. This leads to a lower number of pregnancies per woman. For this reason, women attending infertility clinics nowadays tend to be from more advanced age, and oocyte donation is currently the only available option to achieve pregnancy [2, 3].

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Pellicer, A., Gomez, V.H. (2020). Oocyte Retrieval in Egg Donation. In: Malvasi, A., Baldini, D. (eds) Pick Up and Oocyte Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28741-2_13

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