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Surrogate Mothers
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Vernix caseosa peritonitis is a rare complication of pregnancy that can occur following Caesarean section. If fetal vernix enters the peritoneal cavity, it may incite an acute inflammatory response leading to peritonitis. This diagnosis should be considered when patients present with...
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PMID: 21696565
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Lakartidningen (108)3 2011
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Obstetrics & Gynecology (115)2 Pt 2 2010
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BACKGROUND: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been used to decrease or avoid the risk of transmitting identified mutations to offspring. CASE: A 29-year-old woman with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita and her 30-year-old husband with Marfan syndrome underwent in vitro fertilization with pr...
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PMID: 20093880
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Lakartidningen (107)46 2010
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We discussed the management of possible problems and complications during pregnancy and delivery. After an uneventful pregnancy and delivery a healthy boy was taken home by the donor couple. In the Netherlands, high-tech surrogate motherhood under strict non-commercial conditions has been accepted b...
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PMID: 20735871
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OPINION STATEMENT: Breast cancer effects nearly 200,000 American women each year, with 9% of these women still in their childbearing years. For this subset of future survivors, the issue of fertility may be a significant quality-of-life concern. Both the causes and treatments for infertility in youn...
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PMID: 20238254
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In most of the industrialized world, comprehensive oversight and/or regulation of assisted reproductive technology has been in place for some time now. For example, in countries such as France or the UK, fertility clinics are licensed by a government agency. This arrangement allows for rules to be m...
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PMID: 20648936
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Revue medicale suisse (5)222 2009
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Entering a commercial surrogacy agreement is an offence in almost all Australian jurisdictions. A 2009 Consultation Paper produced by the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General suggested that there was "widespread agreement" that commercial surrogacy should remain prohibited. The arguments most com...
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PMID: 19998597
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Preservation of fertility is a major concern for premenopausal women after diagnosis of cervical cancer. Successful surrogate pregnancy after treatment for cervical cancer has very rarely been reported. In the present report, a case of successful surrogate pregnancy after radical hysterectomy, lymph...
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PMID: 19712562
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UK law has for many years taken a careful approach to surrogacy, neither banning it nor allowing it to develop unrestrictedly. This careful middle approach seeks to balance permitting what may be a last hope for infertile couples against a wider public policy that bars commercialized reproduction: s...
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PMID: 19712546
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We aimed to evaluate the attitudes and knowledge of medical students' towards surrogacy as a means of assisted reproduction. An online survey was sent to medical students from UK universities, 185 anonymous replies were received. A total of 72.2% agreed with surrogacy as a means of assisted reproduc...
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PMID: 19358032
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médecine/sciences (25)4 2009
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We propose to analyze the elements that are opposed to the legalization of the practice. We do not underestimate the suffering of couples without children or the love they want to give but if surrogacy is forbidden it is because of the numerous difficulties it entails and that can not be bypassed by...
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PMID: 19409196
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After defining surrogate pregnancy and distinguishing cases in which the surrogate mother simply bears the child from those in which she is also the egg donor, the authors summarize foreign legislation in this area, together with the task force subs auditions and the literature. They list arguments...
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PMID: 19883013
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Irish medical journal (102)2 2009
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We outline a unified management strategy for both conditions. One patient had congenital absence of the uterus and proximal vagina (Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome variant), while another patient presented post-hysterectomy and adjuvant brachytherapy for invasive squamous cervical carcinoma....
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PMID: 19405323
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Law and the human genome review = Revista de derecho y genoma humano / Chair in Law and the Human Genome, BBV Foundation-Provincial Government of Biscay, University of Deusto ()31 2009
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In the Spanish Civil Registry it is now possible to register "natural" children of a homosexual marriage born overseas through surrogate pregnancy. And this is despite article 10.1 of the current Spanish law regarding assisted human reproduction techniques, which declares fully null and void contrac...
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PMID: 20476689
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (19 Suppl 1) 2009
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This report records the first documented instance of a birth in which twins, genetically unrelated to each other, were born to a mother genetically unrelated to either of them. After an extensive history of infertility with multiple unsuccessful treatments, a 42-year-old woman gave birth to healthy...
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PMID: 19622247
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We found the contextual factors related to the acceptability of surrogacy. The ongoing deliberations toward surrogacy considering certain conditions of a concerned couple would be highly desirable....
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PMID: 19591054
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This is the first reported case of a successful gestational carrier pregnancy after reversing ovarian failure, inducing ovulation, and transferring a frozen-thawed embryo....
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PMID: 19860356
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A total of 66 agencies are listed on the website, divided into 8 national regions; 24.5% of egg donor agencies deviated from ASRM guidelines. There was no significant difference in the agency fees among the different regions of United States, but the agency fees for egg donation trend higher in the...
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PMID: 19097517
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Non-puerperal induced lactation: an infant feeding option in paediatric HIV/AIDS in tropical Africa.
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A major problem in the management of infants exposed to HIV is the issue of feeding, which stems from the need to avoid transmission of the virus via breast milk. Other important issues in the nutrition of infants exposed to the virus include severe maternal illness, which makes suckling extremely d...
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PMID: 18678586
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We propose a 'soft law' approach: states should require several hours of education of surrogates--education aimed at informing and enhancing surrogate autonomy....
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PMID: 18447862
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Courts have been quite consistent in allowing ex-partners in marriages or similar relationships, usually men, to veto the other partner's reproductive use of jointly-created IVF embryos. This supports the principle of voluntary parenthood. In contrast, child custody disputes following surrogate moth...
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PMID: 18289543
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Fertility and Sterility (89)4 2008
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Our data in this first study on infertile Turkish women show that some patients approve of gamete donation (23.3% for accepting oocytes and 3.4% for accepting sperm) and gestational surrogacy (15.1%). CONCLUSION(S): Donation and surrogacy are alternate treatments for the serious condition called inf...
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PMID: 18406837
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Fertility and Sterility (89)3 2008
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We report a case of endometrial cancer treated by fertility-preserving P therapy, who subsequently presented with an abnormal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the myometrium despite normal endometrial biopsies. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Tertiary referral university hospital. PATIENT(S): A 31-...
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PMID: 17570366
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Obstetrics & Gynecology (111)2 Pt 1 2008
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Ethical responsibilities are described for obstetrician-gynecologists who choose to participate in surrogacy arrangements by 1) advising couples who are considering surrogacy, 2) counseling potential surrogate mothers, 3) providing obstetric services for pregnant women participating in surrogacy, or...
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PMID: 18238989
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproducti...
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PMID: 18983735
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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This article presents the Catholic Christian tradition and teaching on the moral respect due to human life from conception, supported by natural law moral philosophical reasoning. This approach contrasts with the ethical views of secular philosophers on human embryo research for therapeutic purposes...
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PMID: 18983736
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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In dealing with reproduction, the Church believes that every human being has a beginning but has no end; this is why conception constitutes an event of unique importance. The exact moment of the beginning of life is unknown to man, but the logic of sexual intercourse without reproduction and of repr...
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PMID: 18983734
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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The Jewish religion is characterized by a strict association between faith and practical precepts. In principle, Jewish law has two divisions, the Written and the Oral traditions. The foundation of the Written Law and the origin of authority is the Torah, the first five books of the Scripture. This...
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PMID: 18983733
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I have isolated the features to be discussed under two headings: (1) whose are the rights to reproduce, that the document claimed to 'acknowledge, regulate and guarantee' and (2) what is the status of the embryo, the child and the surrogate mother?...
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PMID: 18154589
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Human Reproduction (24)1 2008
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Further research is needed with larger sample sizes of potential surrogates to determine whether the predictive attitudes reported here translate to actual behaviours. The larger group which was not interested in considering becoming a surrogate scored significantly more negatively on all attitudes...
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PMID: 18794160
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Revue medicale suisse (3)133 2007
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (15 Suppl 1) 2007
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Gestational surrogacy is currently banned in Singapore but is much debated. Some ethical guidelines and legislation for permitting gestational surrogacy in Singapore are proposed and discussed including: (i) review and approval of gestational surrogacy by the Ministry of Health on a case-by-case bas...
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PMID: 17822611
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Human Reproduction (22)8 2007
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These results are important because they demonstrate psychological effects of the surrogate arrangement are notable and occur over an extended period of time. It also shows that psychological screening and support prior to, during and following surrogacy is indicated....
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PMID: 17635845
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Reproductive medicine: where we have been, where we are, where are we going? An ethical perspective.
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The object of the study was to investigate secrecy in non-anonymous egg donation, to explore some characteristics of this kind of egg donation arrangement and the relationship of the recipient with her non-genetic child. Forty-four egg recipients and 62 IVF patients with a child conceived through eg...
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PMID: 17538817
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With regard to gestational surrogacy, men in the brochure group could not clearly express their opinions when compared with those in the no-brochure group (odds ratio (OR): 0.69; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.53-0.89). In contrast, with regard to donor insemination, women in the brochure group cou...
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PMID: 17046144
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Medicine and law (26)2 2007
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Medically assisted human reproduction is a controversial issue that has attracted heated debate over the last two decades. In December 2002 the Greek Parliament passed a law with major social and scientific impact: the Medically Assisted Human Reproduction Act 3089/02. This law establishes the param...
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PMID: 17639855
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Recurrent pregnancy loss affects up to 5% of couples trying to establish a family. Evaluation classically begins after 3 consecutive miscarriages of less than 10 weeks of gestation but may be warranted earlier if a prior miscarriage was found to be euploid, or if there is concomitant infertility and...
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PMID: 17304030
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Providing health care for a woman with a surrogate pregnancy involves unique challenges. Although the ethical debate surrounding surrogacy continues, Canada has banned commercial, but not altruistic, surrogacy. In the event of a custody dispute between a surrogate mother and the individual(s) intend...
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PMID: 17296962
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This review addresses the psychosocial research carried out on surrogacy triads (surrogate mothers, commissioning mothers and offspring) and shows that research has focused on a number of specific issues: attachment and disclosure to surrogate offspring; experiences, characteristics and motivations...
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PMID: 16936307
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In the United States at this time, no uniform federal law exists regarding commercial surrogacy, and state statutory schemes vary vastly, ranging from criminalization to legal recognition with contract enforcement. The authors examine how commercial surrogacy agencies utilize the Internet as a means...
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PMID: 17518856
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The present paper seeks to assess various views from Islamic jurists relating to human cloning, which is one of the controversial topics in the recent past. Taking Islamic jurisprudence principles, such as the rule of necessity for self preservation and respect for human beings, the rule of la darar...
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PMID: 17966502
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Fertility and Sterility (87)1 2007
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the first reported case of gestational carrier treatment to prevent severe early onset pre-eclampsia. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: A university-based reproductive endocrinology and infertility clinic and a tertiary care hospital. PATIENT(S): A 29-year-old woman and her husban...
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PMID: 17084396
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