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Freezer Malfunction May Have Damaged Up to 2,000 Frozen Eggs and Embryos

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 10 2018, @07:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the left-the-freezer-door-open-again dept.

takyon writes:

University Hospitals notifies 700 fertility patients of freezer "fluctuation" and potential damage to stored eggs and embryos

University Hospitals has notified about 700 fertility patients and their families that the frozen eggs and embryos they had stored at one of its hospitals may have been damaged over the weekend when the temperature rose in a storage tank.

The problem, in one of two large freezers preserving specimens at the UH Fertility Center housed at the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, was discovered on Sunday morning. It occurred some time after staff left the previous afternoon, according to Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital.

The liquid nitrogen freezer held about 2,000 egg and embryo specimens, according to Dr. James Liu, chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Some patients had more than one sample stored, and some of the samples were provided as long ago as the 1980's.

Also at Newsweek.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:33PM (#650647)

    Nothing of value was lost. Stored since the 1980s? Nobody's been missing that DNA. The women who laid those eggs are past childbearing age. Do men care to have their sperm linger as potential child support bombs for 30 years?