国际生殖健康/计划生育 ›› 2012, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1): 52-54.

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有关冷冻保存胚胎处置伦理问题的思考

杜湧瑞,张云山   

  1. 300100 天津市中心妇产科医院生殖医学中心
  • 收稿日期:1900-01-01 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2012-01-15 发布日期:2012-01-15

Ethical Concideration on the Disposition Decision of Frozen Embryos

DU Yong-rui, ZHANG Yun-shan   

  1. enter for Reproductive Medicine, Tianjin Central Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin 300100, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Published:2012-01-15 Online:2012-01-15

摘要: 胚胎冷冻技术的发展和广泛应用,极大地提高了累积妊娠率的同时也出现了大量的剩余胚胎,随着冻存胚胎的增多,患者、医生和胚胎学家将面临诸多挑战,如何处置这些剩余胚胎已成为主要问题。目前,一些国家已制定相应的法律法规来规范对这些剩余胚胎的处置,处置方式一般有3种:废弃、捐赠用于医学研究或捐赠给不孕夫妇用于不孕症的治疗。这些胚胎的最终去向引发了一系列社会伦理问题。探讨如何正确认识及处理遇到的伦理学困境。

关键词: 受精, 体外, 胚胎移植, 冷冻, 低温保存, 胚胎处置, 伦理学, 剩余胚胎

Abstract: With the ever-increasing popularity and development of cryopreserved embryos technique,a large number of surplus embryos have been generated with increasing percentage of accumulation pregnancy. Hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos, patients, physicians and embryologists feel it difficult how to deal with. A central challenge was to make decision of the disposition of excess embryos. Now, some countries have developed the laws or guidelines to govern the disposition. Rational disposition was three methods, disposal, donation to medical research, or donation to a recipient infertile couple for infertility treatment. Issues related to the surplus embryos may trigger a series of ethical and legal controversies. In this review,how to understand and treat properly those ethical issues was focused.

Key words: Fertilization in vitro, Embryo transfer, Freezing, Cryopreservation, Embryo disposition, Ethics, Surplus embryos