Contraception, fertilité, sexualité (1992)
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Contracept Fertil Sex · Apr 1999
[Hysterectomies for benign pathology: is there a place for laparoscopic surgery?].
To investigate the alternative routes for hysterectomy for benign disease and the appropriate role of laparoscopic surgery. ⋯ With experienced surgeons, the number of cases in which there appears to be poor vaginal accessibility experience decreases, and indications for vaginal hysterectomies increase.
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Medically assisted procreation poses a difficult problem when one or both partners of couple are infected with HCV. Epidemiologic and fundamental works show a low risk of HCV sexual transmission and no pregnancy complications or fetal abnormalities have been reported. ⋯ Before medically assisted procreation, testing of couples for HCV antibodies must be done and interferon therapy is required for patients with histological chronic active hepatitis and for HCV positive mothers or infected couples. In the absence of specific legislation or consensual recommendations, detailed informations must be given to the couples in order to obtain an informed consent.
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Contracept Fertil Sex · Jul 1997
Review[Assisted reproduction and viral hepatitis: the virologist's viewpoint].
Medical assistance to procreation in a couple with one of the parents having viral hepatitis raises the issue of the transmission of infection to the baby and of possible contaminations of gametes from virus-free parents in the laboratory. Today, the main problems are linked to hepatitis B and C viruses, which induce chronic disease transmissible to the baby and can be transmitted through laboratory contaminations.