How Does Hepatitis Affect Fertility?

 

How Does Hepatitis Affect Fertility?

More than 400 million people all over the world are currently living with Hepatitis B or C. hepatitis cause the inflammation of liver, leading to cirrhosis (chronic scarring) which can prove to be fatal later in life. Every year more than 1.4 million people die from hepatitis.

Not only that, one of the most dangerous hepatitis effect is infertility. If hepatitis prevention is not undertaken, here’s how it can effect female and male fertility.

Hepatitis and Male Fertility

Many chronic diseases have the ability to effect the sperm count and motility rate. In the recent years, many researches and clinical trials have indicated that HCV can significantly cause a decrease in sperm count, semen volume, increase in abnormal sperm morphology, if compared with some healthy controls and progressive sperm motility rate.

The hepatitis effect on fertility is further correlated with negative effect on sperm motility and volume, where the RNA viral HCV load was negatively correlated with sperm motility and sperm count. Moreover, couples going through with an IVF treatment showed less favourable results, if their male partner was infected with hepatitis, due to which hepatitis vaccination and hepatitis prevention is highlighted in reproductive counselling before fertility treatments.

Hepatitis and Female Infertility

Female patients who are diagnosed with HBV and HCV show predominant reproductive barriers during their screening such as menstrual disorders. This is mainly because of intra and extrahepatic pathology. Moreover, women who haven’t had hepatitis vaccination and are HCV positive are at an increased risk of premature ovarian failure that can also cause lifelong fertility problems.

Those women who have chronic liver disease are at a further risk and are often educated about the benefits of Hepatitis travel vaccination in Bromley. Another study, published in 2017, stated that women who inject drugs are among the majority of new cases of HCV infection and included reproductive-age females.

They also showed a remarkable tendency to develop ovarian failure later in life.  Pregnancy rates in women and implantation rates during fertility treatments including HBV positive women or their partners found markers such as higher rate of tube blockage, which cause significant hindrance to embryo transfer cycles.

It is imperative to counsel couples who have tested positive for hepatitis and are getting a fertility treatment. This will not only help them understand the dangers of the disease and its effect on the assisted reproduction techniques but also its transmission risks.

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