COVID-19 and assisted reproductive technology services: repercussions for patients and proposal for individualized clinical management
Posted on 2020-05-14 - 03:41
Abstract The prolonged lockdown of health services providing high-complexity fertility treatments –as currently recommended by many reproductive medicine entities– is detrimental for society as a whole, and infertility patients in particular. Globally, approximately 0.3% of all infants born every year are conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments. By contrast, the total number of COVID-19 deaths reported so far represents approximately 1.0% of the total deaths expected to occur worldwide over the first three months of the current year. It seems, therefore, that the number of infants expected to be conceived and born –but who will not be so due to the lockdown of infertility services– might be as significant as the total number of deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. We herein propose remedies that include a prognostic-stratification of more vulnerable infertility cases in order to plan a progressive restart of worldwide fertility treatments. At a time when preventing complications and limiting burdens for national health systems represent relevant issues, our viewpoint might help competent authorities and health care providers to identify patients who should be prioritized for the continuation of fertility care in a safe environment.
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Alviggi, Carlo; Esteves, Sandro C.; Orvieto, Raoul; Conforti, Alessandro; La Marca, Antonio; Fischer, Robert; et al. (2020). COVID-19 and assisted reproductive technology services: repercussions for patients and proposal for individualized clinical management. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4977305.v1
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AUTHORS (32)
CA
Carlo Alviggi
SE
Sandro C. Esteves
RO
Raoul Orvieto
AC
Alessandro Conforti
AL
Antonio La Marca
RF
Robert Fischer
CA
Claus Y. Andersen
KB
Klaus Bühler
SS
Sesh K. Sunkara
NP
Nikolaos P. Polyzos
IS
Ida Strina
LC
Luigi Carbone
FB
Fabiola C. Bento
DG
Daniela Galliano
HY
Hakan Yarali
LV
Lan N. Vuong
MG
Michael Grynberg
PD
Panagiotis Drakopoulos
PX
Pedro Xavier
JL
Joaquin Llacer