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29/01/2014
A new report by fertility experts has said that more caution should be taken before couples are offered IVF treatment.
The advice, which has been published in the British Medical Journal, comes after it was suggested that the risks of the treatment could outweigh the benefits for some couples. Specifically, those behind the report say more consideration should be taken in applying IVF when a couple still has a reasonable chance of natural conception.
They questioned whether IVF and another treatment – intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) – were always the right choice for a couple wanting to conceive, adding that evidence showing that IVF and ICSI could help couples with unexplained infertility was 'weak', according to the BBC.
In one Dutch study, which looked at 500 couples who had two years of unexplained infertility, some 60% were able to conceive naturally after an initial assessment at a fertility clinic.
But while there was no doubt over the effectiveness of IVF, experts said there was a lack of will to question the perceived success of the treatment.
In their explanation, they said: "We owe it to all subfertile couples and their potential children to use IVF judiciously and to ensure that we are first doing no harm.
"As a society we face a choice. We can continue to offer early, non-evidence based access to IVF to couples with fertility problems, or follow a more challenging path to prove interventions are effective and safe and to optimize the IVF procedure."
(JP/CD)
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Caution Urged Over IVF Treatment
A new report by fertility experts has said that more caution should be taken before couples are offered IVF treatment.
The advice, which has been published in the British Medical Journal, comes after it was suggested that the risks of the treatment could outweigh the benefits for some couples. Specifically, those behind the report say more consideration should be taken in applying IVF when a couple still has a reasonable chance of natural conception.
They questioned whether IVF and another treatment – intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) – were always the right choice for a couple wanting to conceive, adding that evidence showing that IVF and ICSI could help couples with unexplained infertility was 'weak', according to the BBC.
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In one Dutch study, which looked at 500 couples who had two years of unexplained infertility, some 60% were able to conceive naturally after an initial assessment at a fertility clinic.
But while there was no doubt over the effectiveness of IVF, experts said there was a lack of will to question the perceived success of the treatment.
In their explanation, they said: "We owe it to all subfertile couples and their potential children to use IVF judiciously and to ensure that we are first doing no harm.
"As a society we face a choice. We can continue to offer early, non-evidence based access to IVF to couples with fertility problems, or follow a more challenging path to prove interventions are effective and safe and to optimize the IVF procedure."
(JP/CD)
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