This paper reports the birth of a healthy baby resulting from transfer of blastocysts that were cryopreserved using propanediol after spontaneous hatching. A young infertile couple underwent IVF treatment in the clinic. After several IVF attempts, two births resulted; the first one with fresh embryos in 1996 after three IVF cycles, and the second one in 1999 (after a new IVF cycle in 1998) with frozen blastocysts that had remained cryopreserved in 1.5 mol/l propanediol and 0.1 mol/l sucrose after spontaneous hatching. This report of a healthy baby following transfer of hatched blastocysts frozen in propanediol supports further exploration of this approach.
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