Egg Donation - Egg Donation

Generality

Egg donation (or egg donation) is a process in which a female individual spontaneously donates part of her own eggs, so that they can be used with heterologous fertilization by a couple with fertility problems.

This procedure is more complicated than donating male semen (semedonation), as it requires a minor surgery (called follicular puncture) to extract the eggs. The female gametes collected in this way are then fertilized in the laboratory with the sperm of the partner or of a donor unrelated to the couple, using the most appropriate medically assisted procreation techniques.
The donor who decides to donate her oocytes to other women at an assisted reproduction clinic must undergo specific tests, such as, for example, health history and analyzes for infectious and genetic pathologies.