Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 21-2010. A request for retrieval of oocytes from a 36-year-old woman with anoxic brain injury.
Greer
David M
DM
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
Styer
Aaron K
AK
Toth
Thomas L
TL
Kindregan
Charles P
CP
Romero
Javier M
JM
D000328:Adult; D015925:Cryopreservation / Q000941:ethics; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D054315:Oocyte Retrieval / Q000941:ethics*; D037022:Posthumous Conception / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D028761:Withholding Treatment