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Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage

Reopening fertility care services across the world in the midst of a pandemic brings with it numerous concerns that need immediate addressing, such as the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on the male and female reproductive cells and the plausible risk of cross-...

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Autores principales: Adiga, Satish K., Tholeti, Prathima, Uppangala, Shubhashree, Kalthur, Guruprasad, Gualtieri, Roberto, Talevi, Riccardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33032909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.09.013
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author Adiga, Satish K.
Tholeti, Prathima
Uppangala, Shubhashree
Kalthur, Guruprasad
Gualtieri, Roberto
Talevi, Riccardo
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description Reopening fertility care services across the world in the midst of a pandemic brings with it numerous concerns that need immediate addressing, such as the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on the male and female reproductive cells and the plausible risk of cross-contamination and transmission. Due to the novelty of the disease the literature contains few reports confirming an association of SARS-CoV-2 with reproductive tissues, gametes and embryos. Cryobanking, an essential service in fertility preservation, carries the risk of cross-contamination through cryogenic medium and thus calls for risk-mitigation strategies. This review aims to address the available literature on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 on tissues, gametes and embryos, with special reference to the possible sources of cross-contamination through liquid nitrogen. Strategies for risk mitigation have been extrapolated from reports dealing with other viruses to the current global crisis, for safety in fertility treatment services in general, and specifically for oncofertility.
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spelling pubmed-74902412020-09-15 Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage Adiga, Satish K. Tholeti, Prathima Uppangala, Shubhashree Kalthur, Guruprasad Gualtieri, Roberto Talevi, Riccardo Reprod Biomed Online Review Reopening fertility care services across the world in the midst of a pandemic brings with it numerous concerns that need immediate addressing, such as the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on the male and female reproductive cells and the plausible risk of cross-contamination and transmission. Due to the novelty of the disease the literature contains few reports confirming an association of SARS-CoV-2 with reproductive tissues, gametes and embryos. Cryobanking, an essential service in fertility preservation, carries the risk of cross-contamination through cryogenic medium and thus calls for risk-mitigation strategies. This review aims to address the available literature on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 on tissues, gametes and embryos, with special reference to the possible sources of cross-contamination through liquid nitrogen. Strategies for risk mitigation have been extrapolated from reports dealing with other viruses to the current global crisis, for safety in fertility treatment services in general, and specifically for oncofertility. Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7490241/ /pubmed/33032909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.09.013 Text en © 2020 Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Tholeti, Prathima
Uppangala, Shubhashree
Kalthur, Guruprasad
Gualtieri, Roberto
Talevi, Riccardo
Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title_full Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title_fullStr Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title_full_unstemmed Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title_short Fertility preservation during the COVID-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
title_sort fertility preservation during the covid-19 pandemic: mitigating the viral contamination risk to reproductive cells in cryostorage
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33032909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.09.013
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