Donation

We work only with clinics conducting IUI or IVF. It allows us to concentrate on understanding what the clinics need for their quality work, representatives of the clinics, especially the embryologists in their desire to get a positive outcome of the procedures. In one year, our partners, IVF clinics, conduct about 2,000 IUI or IVF procedures with our donor material.

Our constant striving for quality and continuous improvement of work helps our partners - IVF clinics to have significant results when working with donor material.

The bank stores

• eggs (oocytes);
• seminal fluid;
• embryos.

Who needs cryopreserved cells

You can use frozen cells not only in donor programs. Any woman or man can give his healthy gametes for preservation and storage when deciding to postpone parenthood until a later date or before treating a serious illness. Customers can be sure that their eggs or sperm will maintain fertility and high quality.

Methods of cryopreservation

There are two methods of cryopreservation:

1. Slow dehydration - elimination of fluid from the cell with replacement with a cryoprotective substance.
2. Vitrification - ultra-fast freezing with the exception of the crystallization stage. This is the most reliable way in which cells can be stored for years (up to 10 or more) and not lose their characteristics after defrosting.

What cryobank consists of

• Donor Bank - provides medical services to infertile couples. Also separately for women and men with infertility. Women without a partner.
• Personal Bank - provides storage of ejaculate and oocytes of people who decide to postpone the birth of children. Storage of customers biomaterial with a high risk of premature loss or decreased fertility.
• Well-equipped laboratory - provides verification of material intended for storage. Carries out the procedures for freezing and defrosting of gametes or embryos.

AltraVita cryobank provides transportation services for reproductive material samples to other reproduction centers.

Storage conditions

Cryostorage is a separate room with high-tech equipment that controls environmental parameters. Climatic equipment maintains constant physical conditions. Signal sensors control humidity, temperature, air pressure.

For storage of biopsy, special tubes, containers, test tubes are provided. Separate storage allows to defrost only one container to use a certain amount of material. All containers are labeled and placed in liquid nitrogen to maintain at constant temperature.

Medical staff is not permanently staying in the cryostorage. They go in there only in special suits. The signal system of sensors is displayed in the office of permanent stay of the medical staff.