title: The shared donor oocyte program: the advantages and insights it provides in determining etiologic factors of infertility.
abstract: A shared oocyte program allows a couple to achieve a pregnancy by in vitro fertilization (IVF) when this option may have been precluded because of financial considerations. It also allows recipients to save money since they do not have to pay a donor fee. The shared program offers the availability of a larger pool of oocytes thus reducing waiting times for recipients. The donors are a highly motivated group since they are working for their own infertility problem and are therefore very cooperative. The shared oocyte program is a very valuable research tool because one can evaluate under different circumstances the outcome of the same pool of oocytes being fertilized by different sperm and the subsequent embryos formed being transferred into two different women under different circumstances.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
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mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000628:therapy*; D018587:Oocyte Donation / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014481:United States