[Oocyte donation after the bioethics law. Medical, ethical and legal implications drawn form a series of 300 cases at the Tenon hospital].
This is the perfect example of the problems which are the consequences of the actual medicine. We carried out an ovocyte donation study at the Tenon Hospital, in Paris, between 1994 and 1999 involving 177 cryopreserved thawed embryo transfers among 300 recipients. This study enables us to stress the ethical difficulties posed by the so called bioethical laws of 1994. Simultaneously two consequences became clearly evident: a paucity of donors, and the necessity to only transfer frozen embryos due to decree of 1996 upon sanitary security that imposes the quarantine of embryos for six months. On the other hand, the use of this method has yielded important new information regarding embryo implantation and the importance of ovocyte quality that is closely correlated to donor age.
Salat-Baroux
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Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique et Biologie de la Reproduction, Hôpital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine-75020 Paris.
Cornet
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Mandelbaum
J
J
Watanabe
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Merviel
P
P
Antoine
J M
JM
D001675:Bioethics; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009865:Oocytes; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*