At cancer, frozen embryos to be mother, but history has a heartbreaking end – 05/03/2019

Katelynn Gurbach was diagnosed Ovarian cancer at 23 years old and, as a result, they had to remove the organs. But before undergoing surgery, the woman from Ohio, USA, decided to save eggs and embryos to be able to conceive children in the future.

The place he chose is the fertility center of the University Hospitals, near Cleveland, and stored 10 eggs and four embryos. His plan was that once he was released, start badisted fertilization treatment. But his dream disappeared overnight.

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In March of last year, a friend tagged her in a Facebook publication: The Fertility Center of University Hospitals. He had failed in the freezing of eggs and embryos. "My God, do you think there was yours?" Asked he.

The woman had become so confused by emotions that she was afraid of going crazy, she told NBC in an interview. The incident occurred when the nitrogen reservoir in the fertility center was malfunctioning and, as a result, the temperature at which the embryos and ova of their clients were frozen.

The problem had gone unnoticed for some time, since the remote alarm system, which should have alerted the fertility center, It was off. "But the bottom line is that the devices used for long-term storage of reproductive material are not subject to any surveillance or any consistent regulations," she complains the woman.

He added: "And no official agency has intervened to impose new requirements despite the decision of last year".

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Now all the clients have filed a clbad action, but Gurbach's aggravating factor is that, in his case, he also lost his only chance to conceive: "My heart shattered, I was devastated, in this tank of liquid nitrogen, there was a lot of hope and a lot of dreams".

Although the material was immediately transferred to other institutions, university hospitals began calling around 1000 affected patients by the accident, which destroyed nearly 4,000 embryos or ova. In the case of Gurbach, the loss was total.

Without health insurance, this procedure costs $ 12,000 in the United States, where every year about 7,300 women use freezing. "We are really sorry that this has happened and we want to do everything in our power to help our patients in this difficult time," said the institution.