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SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and repercussions for male infertility patients: A proposal for the individualized provision of andrological services
- Source :
- ANDROLOGY, r-IIS La Fe. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, instname, Andrology, Esteves, S C, Lombardo, F, Garrido, N, Alvarez, J, Zini, A, Colpi, G M, Kirkman-Brown, J, Lewis, S E M, Björndahl, L, Majzoub, A, Cho, C-L, Vendeira, P, Hallak, J, Amar, E, Cocuzza, M, Bento, F C, Figueira, R C, Sciorio, R, Laursen, R J, Metwalley, A M, Jindal, S K, Parekattil, S, Ramasamy, R, Alviggi, C, Humaidan, P, Yovich, J L & Agarwal, A 2021, ' SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and repercussions for male infertility patients : A proposal for the individualized provision of andrological services ', Andrology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 10-18 . https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.12809
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2020.
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Abstract
- The prolonged lockdown of health facilities providing non-urgent gamete cryopreservation –as currently recommended by many reproductive medicine entities and regulatory authorities due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic will be detrimental for subgroups of male infertility patients. We believe the existing recommendations should be promptly modified and propose that the same permissive approach for sperm banking granted for men with cancer is expanded to other groups of vulnerable patients. These groups include male infertility patients (e.g., azoospermic men and cryptozoospermic) undergoing medical or surgical treatment to improve sperm quantity and quality, as well as males of reproductive age affected by inflammatory and systemic auto-immune diseases who are about to start treatment with gonadotoxic drugs or who are under remission. In both scenarios, the ‘fertility window’ may be transitory; postponing diagnostic semen analysis and sperm banking in these men could compromise the prospects of biological parenthood. Moreover, we provide recommendations on how to continue the provision of andrological services in a considered manner and a safe environment. Our opinion is timely and relevant given the fact that fertility services are currently rated as of low priority in most countries.
- Subjects :
- Male
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
male infertility
SARS‐CoV‐2
Health Services Accessibility
Male infertility
azoospermia
opinion
SARS-CoV-2
semen analysis
sperm banking
systemic auto-immune diseases
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Endocrinology
HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM
OXIDATIVE STRESS
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SARS-CoV-2, azoospermia, male infertility, opinion, semen analysis, sperm banking, systemic auto-immune diseases
03 medical and health sciences
NONOBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA
medicine
MANAGEMENT
Humans
SPERMATOGENESIS
Intensive care medicine
Infertility, Male
Azoospermia
Semen analysi
Health Services Needs and Demand
business.industry
COVID-19
Opinion Article
Sperm bank
medicine.disease
Reproductive Medicine
business
FERTILITY PRESERVATION
INFLAMMATORY-BOWEL-DISEASE
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- ISSN :
- 20472919
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ANDROLOGY, r-IIS La Fe. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, instname, Andrology, Esteves, S C, Lombardo, F, Garrido, N, Alvarez, J, Zini, A, Colpi, G M, Kirkman-Brown, J, Lewis, S E M, Björndahl, L, Majzoub, A, Cho, C-L, Vendeira, P, Hallak, J, Amar, E, Cocuzza, M, Bento, F C, Figueira, R C, Sciorio, R, Laursen, R J, Metwalley, A M, Jindal, S K, Parekattil, S, Ramasamy, R, Alviggi, C, Humaidan, P, Yovich, J L & Agarwal, A 2021, ' SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and repercussions for male infertility patients : A proposal for the individualized provision of andrological services ', Andrology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 10-18 . https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.12809
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....df3922cee155d7907ff9f4b79c03f224