Expecting more: the case for incorporating fertility services into comprehensive sickle cell disease care.

ABSTRACT: Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are not yet systematically available to people with sickle cell disease or their parents. Fertility care for these groups requires addressing sickle cell disease-associated infertility risks, fertility preservation options, pregnancy possibilities and outcomes, and, when needed, infertility treatment. People with a chance of having a child with sickle cell disease can use in-vitro fertilisation with preimplantation genetic testing to conceive a child unaffected by sickle cell disease. Also, parents of children with sickle cell disease can use this technology to identify embryos to become potential future matched sibling donors for stem cell transplant. In the USA, disparities in fertility care for the sickle cell disease community are especially sta

SUBMITTER: Pecker LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318482 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature