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    Literature search strategy

    Appendix: Overview Search history

    Databases

    Date searched

    Version/files

    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library)

    19/10/2021

    Issue 10 of 12, October 2021

    Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library)

    19/10/2021

    Issue 10 of 12, October 2021

    International HTA database

    19/10/2021

    -

    MEDLINE (Ovid)

    19/10/2021

    1946 to October 15, 2021

    MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) & MEDLINE ePubs ahead of print (Ovid)

    19/10/2021

    October 15, 2021

    EMBASE (Ovid)

    19/10/2021

    1974 to 2021 October 18

    Embase Conference (Ovid)

    19/10/2021

    1974 to 2021 October 18

    Trial sources searched

    • Clinicaltrials.gov

    • ISRCTN

    • WHO International Clinical Trials Registry

    Websites searched

    • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    • NHS England

    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - MAUDE database

    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIP – S)

    • Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)

    • General internet search

    MEDLINE search strategy

    The MEDLINE search strategy was translated for use in the other sources.

    1 MENOPAUSE/ or MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE/ or PERIMENOPAUSE/ or POSTMENOPAUSE/

    2 CLIMACTERIC/

    3 (menopaus* or postmenopaus* or perimenopaus* or climacteri*).tw.

    4 "change of life".tw.

    5 PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY/

    6 ((primary or prematur* or gonadotrop* or hypergonadotrop* or resist*) adj4 ovar* adj4 (insuffic* or fail* or incompet* or syndrom*)).tw.

    7 ((earl* or prematur*) adj4 menopaus*).tw.

    8 (POI or POF).tw.

    9 or/1-8

    10 Cryopreservation/

    11 Tissue Preservation/

    12 Tissue Transplantation/ or Transplants/

    13 (ovar* adj4 tissue* adj4 (transplant* or graft* or preserv* or reimplant* or re-implant* or freez* or frozen or cryopreserv* or cryofixat* or "cryonic suspen*")).tw.

    14 (OTC or OTT or OTCT).tw.

    15 or/10-14

    16 9 and 15

    17 animals/ not humans/

    18 16 not 17