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Mr Efstathios Theodorou
Independent Doctor's Federation
What is vitrification?
Mr Efstathios Theodorou defines vitrification as a technique of freezing eggs or embryos, and is much faster and effective opposed to slow freezing. With vitrification, the eggs get to -200 degrees within seconds, and that makes the survival of the gamete and the embryos much better.
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Vitrification is a technique of freezing eggs or embryos, and that is opposed to slow freezing. In slow freezing the temperature of the eggs or the embryos is decreased slowly over a period of 10, 15 minutes. But with vitrification, we go to -200 degrees within seconds, and that makes the survival of the gamete and the embryos much, much better.