Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Infectious Diseases: A Guide to Management - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319301101 ISBN 13: 9783319301105

Publisher: Springer, 2016

Synopsis

This concise and practical book is the first of its kind to examine the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in relation to blood-borne infectious diseases: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV). The book opens with a discussion of the impact of these viruses on male and female fertility, followed by specific chapters of each of them, including ART with HIV and HCV serodiscordant couples (where either the male or female is positive) and the detection and impact of HBV and HCV in human gametes and embryos. An important character on laboratory safety when performing ART with blood-borne viruses follows, and the book concludes with a discussion of ART in austere and resource-poor settings, where these infections are often dominant due to lack of treatment and access to vaccines. Written and edited by an international array of experts in reproductive medicine, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Infectious Diseases explores questions, techniques, and related issues with the aim of effectively helping clinicians working with serodiscordant couples wishing to have children. 

About this title

About the Author

Andrea Borini, MD

Scientific Director

9.baby, Center for Fertility and Family Health

Bologna, Italy

Valeria Savasi, MD, PhD

Chief of Reproductive Unit

Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences

Hospital “L. Sacco”

University of Milan

Milan, Italy

From the Back Cover

This concise and practical book is the first of its kind to examine the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in relation to blood-borne infectious diseases: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV). The book opens with a discussion of the impact of these viruses on male and female fertility, followed by specific chapters of each of them, including ART with HIV and HCV serodiscordant couples (where either the male or female is positive) and the detection and impact of HBV and HCV in human gametes and embryos. An important character on laboratory safety when performing ART with blood-borne viruses follows, and the book concludes with a discussion of ART in austere and resource-poor settings, where these infections are often dominant due to lack of treatment and access to vaccines. Written and edited by an international array of experts in reproductive medicine, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Infectious Diseases explores questions, techniques, and related issues with the aim of effectively helping clinicians working with serodiscordant couples wishing to have children. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319301101
• ISBN 13: 9783319301105
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Borini Andrea, Savasi Maria Valeria