Laboratory safety during assisted reproduction in patients with blood-borne viruses

Laboratory safety during assisted reproduction in patients with blood-borne viruses.

For couples where one or both partners are infected with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis C, the doors to receiving fertility care are opening as a result of better antiviral medication, better long-term prognosis and consequent changes in attitude. In line with this, fertility centres electing to treat couples with blood-borne viral (BBV) infection need to re-examine their policies an...

Rethinking our approach to blood-borne viruses

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Ethical issues in assisted reproduction techniques for patients with disorders of sexual development

Viruses Causing Hemorrhagic Fever. Safety Laboratory Procedures

Viral hemorrhagic fevers are diseases caused by viruses which belong to different families, many of them causing severe diseases. These viruses may produce different symptomatology together with a severe multisystem syndrome, and the final result might be the production of hemorrhages in several sites of the body. The majority of them have no other treatment than supportive therapy, although so...

Quality management issues in the assisted reproduction laboratory

In the United States, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) of 1988 describes requirements and guidelines for implementing a quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA) program for moderate and high complexity laboratories. These requirements and guidelines apply to Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) laboratories as well. The general topic of QC and QA as it pertains to in vitro fert...