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Assisted Reproductive Technology in Perimenopausal Women

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A decrease in the birth rate and an increase in maternal age have been showed in the last decades. Alternatively, advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART) allows pregnancy at any age, and we face new ethical and health challenges regarding the question of what is the limit for a woman to become pregnant. Now that ARTs are common throughout the world, the medical, legal, moral, and ethical debates unleashed since their inception has been globalized. On the other hand, genetic counseling is a communication process that deals with the human problems associated with the occurrence, or the risk of occurrence, of a genetic disorder in a family. It is based on medical, reproductive, and family history and must always be carried out. In assisted reproduction, risk assessment includes not only the embryo and the fetus but also the parent itself.

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    Nicolás Mendoza Ladrón de Guevara & Miguel Angel Motos Guirao

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Mendoza Ladrón de Guevara, N., Motos Guirao, M.A. (2019). Assisted Reproductive Technology in Perimenopausal Women. In: Pérez-López, F. (eds) Postmenopausal Diseases and Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13936-0_1

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