The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services at the UConn Health Center is now part of one of the world’s largest egg banks, an affiliation that can greatly reduce or even eliminate wait times for women looking for an egg donor, and give them more control over the matching process.

MyEggBank, North America is a network of high-quality infertility centers that provides frozen donor-egg-bank services to patients across the United States and Canada.

“The path to determining that egg donation can be a solution to infertility can be a long one,” says Dr. Claudio Benadiva, one of the center’s lead physicians. “The realization is often further complicated by a long wait to find the right egg donor—for some, six to 12 months is the norm. For most patients, the diverse database of egg donors completely eliminates the six-to-nine-month matching wait associated with other egg donation programs.”

Access to the world’s largest inventory of frozen donor eggs exposes patients to a larger pool of high-quality donors. MyEggBank, North America says its approved egg donors go through a thorough clinical, psychological and genetic screening process.

Additionally, says Benadiva, “The use of frozen donor eggs eliminates the need to synchronize the cycle of the egg recipient to the egg donor.”

The Center for Advance Reproductive Services’ Egg Donor Program serves women unable to produce their own healthy eggs; those with unsuccessful superovulation therapies, early onset menopause, premature ovarian failure, abnormal eggs, and repetitive failures with in vitro fertilization; and those who carry genetic abnormalities or genetically transmitted diseases.

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