Abstract
Under pressure from involved families and time limitations, Israeli judges tend to authorize postmortem sperm retrieval and freezing, even in unmarried men and in contradiction to current, albeit non-legally binding, guidelines of the Attorney General. Postmortem sperm retrieval in our institution (2003 to June 2009) was successful in 17 cases, motile sperm was found in 16/17, and cryopreservation was performed in 15/16: no application for use of any of the postmortem frozen samples has been performed thus far.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1154-1156 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Fertility and Sterility |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Aug 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Posthumous reproduction
- postmortem sperm procurement
- postmortem sperm retrieval
- sperm cryopreservation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Reproductive Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology