Reproductive planning in times of Zika: getting pregnant or delaying plans? The opinion of the Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction Committee - a basis for a bioethical discussion
| Autor: | Paulo Franco Taitson, Hitomi Miura Nakagawa, Karina S. A. G. Brandão, Rui Alberto Ferriani, Bruno Ramalho de Carvalho, Joaquim Roberto Costa Lopes, Adelino Amaral Silva |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Microcephaly Reproductive Techniques Assisted Reproduction (economics) Alternative medicine central nervous system disorders Zika virus 03 medical and health sciences Human reproduction Zika Pregnancy medicine Humans Sbra Pages Pregnancy Complications Infectious MICROCEFALIA Gynecology biology business.industry Zika Virus Infection Infant Newborn human reproduction Bioethics Zika Virus medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Causality 030104 developmental biology Family medicine Female business Infertility Female Brazil |
| Zdroj: | JBRA Assisted Reproduction Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 1518-0557 1517-5693 |
| Popis: | Although the causality between Zika virus, microcephaly, and other central nervous system disorders has been taken for granted by the scientific community, many uncertainties remain. The gap of knowledge at the moment is large enough to remove part of the confidence physicians have on the advice given to patients - and infertile women in particular - on their reproductive plans. Pretreatment serologic screening is a possible strategy to offer more confidence for individuals choosing to bear children regardless of the Zika virus, but the tests currently available do not seem to be sufficiently adequate. Until now, there is no formal recommendation to avoid pregnancy solely because of the Zika virus outbreak, and the choice of becoming pregnant has been regarded as a personal decision to be made by each woman and her family. |
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