COVID-19 and assisted reproductive technology services: repercussions for patients and proposal for individualized clinical management.

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. W

SUBMITTER: Alviggi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature