local pride! The first baby from cryopreserved embryos was born at the San Martín Hospital in our city. This is the first time that this event has happened in a public institution in Argentina.
In dialogue with diary todaythe pediatrician Paola Cano, who works as head of the Assisted Fertilization Diagnosis and Treatment Unit of the Gynecology Service of the hospital center located at 1 and 70, highlighted the work that allowed the birth of a baby in a 37-year-old patient years and that she had been looking for a pregnancy for five years.
“The Fertility Law has existed since 2011, but the Embryology Laboratory, let’s say in vitro, we have had it since 2017, when we form the embryos in the laboratory and transfer it to the pregnant woman. And from 2019 we have the possibility of freezing the remaining embryos. If we obtain five embryos from a woman and two are transferred, the rest are not discarded, they are cryopreserved, they are frozen for a second attempt or for a second pregnancy”, explained the specialist in reproductive medicine, who has been dedicated for 17 years to fertility.
According to the professional, the Fertility Unit arose from the Fertility Law, which is in force as of January 2011: “That’s where the area begins in San Martín, but we didn’t have our own laboratory. We outsourced everything that was highly complex to private centers. Starting in 2017, we managed to found the first Human Embryology Laboratory in Argentina.”
The work team that participated is made up of the head of the Gynecology Service, Dr. Mercedes Lasaga; the medical specialists in reproductive medicine, Dr. Marianela Stechina and Eugenia Baum; and the andrologist, Dr. Eduardo Carroza. In addition, the group includes Roxana Napolitano and Carla Valiente, both biologists.
“In 2017, highly complex treatments began to be carried out. We have been doing low-complexity treatments such as insemination or scheduled sexual intercourse since 2011. That does not require the complexity that an in vitro treatment needs. We continue to do that and as of 2019 cryopreservation treatments were added, ”he specified.
Regarding the treatment, the doctor explained that “the patient first performed the in vitro test, where she did not get pregnant, but managed to freeze the embryos that were transferred. She thaws them in October, they are transferred and the first baby is born from frozen embryos in the public sector in Argentina”.
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