subject: How A Reproductive Endocrinologist In California Is Helping Women Retain The Ability To Conceive [print this page] Infertility has long been one of the worlds most unfortunate conditions. In the United States, it is estimated that three out of a twenty married couples will experience various reproductive health problems such as infertility, miscarriages and birth defects in the newborn child. Some of the common causes of infertility in women include the lack of regular ovulation, endometriosis, and the blockage of the fallopian tubes. It is important to note that in approximately thirty percent of all infertility cases, the exact cause is indeterminable. In California, women who are experiencing problems conceiving come to reproductive endocrinologists such as Dr. John Jain.
Dr. Jain has been helping women diagnosed with cancer, women who have had multiple miscarriages, and even women who are genetically unable to conceive, understand their situation better and if possible, find solutions to their problems. One of the methods being implemented by Dr. Jain and his team is oocyte cryopreservation, wherein the females egg cells are stimulated and extracted, and then collected and stored in very low temperatures. This preserves the egg cells ability to get fertilized for future use. This ability has been extremely valuable especially for women who have been diagnosed with cancer. Before their cancer treatment destroys any healthy egg cell that they carry in their body, they first have them cryogenically preserved so that they may be kept well away from radiation and chemotherapy. Once the cancer treatment is complete, and the patient has been deemed medically cleared, they can have the frozen egg cells thawed and reintroduced to the uterus, where they will stay there until they are ready to be fertilized.
Dr. Jain is the lead physician at Santa Monica Fertility located in southern California. He is a board certified reproductive endocrinologist who has more than twenty years of academic experience including ten years as a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. His research into oocyte cryopreservation has helped hundreds of women with reproductive health problems. To date, egg freezing has accounted for close to one thousand five hundred pregnancies, with nearly six hundred of them happening in the last four years.
