Bruno Ramalho Carvalho, Paulo Franco Taitson, Karina de Sá Adami Gonçalves Brandão, Rui Alberto Ferriani, Hitomi Miura Nakagawa, Adelino Amaral Silva, Joaquim Roberto da Costa Lopes
JBRA Assist. Reprod. 2016; 20 (3):159-164
Received May 30, 2016
Accepted May 30, 2016
Abstract
Although the causality between Zika virus, microcephaly, and other central nervous system disorders has been taken for granted by the scientific community, many uncertainties remain. The gap of knowledge at the moment is large enough to remove part of the confidence physicians have on the advice given to patients – and infertile women in particular – on their reproductive plans. Pretreatment serologic screening is a possible strategy to offer more confidence for individuals choosing to bear children regardless of the Zika virus, but the tests currently available do not seem to be sufficiently adequate. Until now, there is no formal recommendation to avoid pregnancy solely because of the Zika virus outbreak, and the choice of becoming pregnant has been regarded as a personal decision to be made by each woman and her family.
