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Médecine de la Reproduction

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FIV for HBV and HCV infected couples Volume 17, issue 1, Janvier-Février-Mars 2015

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Service de gynécologie obstétrique, unité d’assistance médicale à la procréation, France

In the context of viral hepatitis B and C, thanks to assisted reproduction techniques in France since 2001 an appropriate treatment can be proposed with a three consultations: clinical consultation, biological consultation and hepatology consultation. Following these consultations, the records must be validated at least annually. The hepatitis B virus has the ability of integrating human sperm chromosomes and appears to affect the results in spermiogram and perhaps in ICSI. Nevertheless, the risk of vertical transmission has never been identified. When hepatitis B affects women, the results of ART do not seem to be change and vertical transmission can be prevented by possible treatment during pregnancy and by serovaccination of the child at birth. If the management of hepatitis C by ART raises no specific concern, no contamination of gametes, same ART results; it could raise more questions about the risk of vertical transmission.