Indication
A need for egg donation may arise for a number of reasons. Infertile couples may resort to acquiring eggs through egg donation when the female partner cannot have genetic children because she may not have eggs that can generate a viable pregnancy. This situation is often, but not always based on advanced reproductive age. Early onset of menopause which can occur in women as early as their 30’s can require a woman to use donor eggs to grow her family. Some women are born without ovaries or other reproductive organs. Sometimes a woman's reproductive organs have been damaged due to disease or circumstances required her to have them surgically removed. Another indication would be a genetic disorder on part of the woman that can be circumvented by using eggs from another person. Many women have none of these issues, but continue to be unsuccessful using their own eggs.
If desired, (and if the egg donor agrees), the couple can personally get acquainted with the egg donor, her children and family members. More often, egg donations are anonymous. As stated above, egg donation is also helpful for gay male couples using surrogacy (see LGBT parenting).
- Congenital absence of eggs
- Turner syndrome
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Acquired reduced egg quantity / quality
- Oophorectomy
- Premature menopause
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
- Autoimmunity
- Advanced maternal age
- Compromised ovarian reserve
- Other
- Diseases of X-Sex linkage
- Repetitive fertilization or pregnancy failure
- Ovaries inaccessible for egg retrieval
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