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Assessment of wishes regarding disposition of oocytes and embryo management among ovum donors in an anonymous egg donation program.

Adsuar N, Zweifel JE, Pritts EA, Davidson MA, Olive DL, Lindheim SR

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

Revealing possible clinical scenarios to potential anonymous donors for their donated oocytes appears to uncover ambivalence in the majority of prospective candidates about their donation and unwillingness in some to proceed. Full disclosure to a prospective donor candidate of the program's policies for directives of donated oocytes and embryo management emphasizes the importance of the informed consent process and how it may affect the decision to donate.

Published 8 November 2005 in Fertil Steril, 84(5): 1513-6.
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