Fertility and PCD

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What is this talk about?

We know little about fertility among people with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). Prof Dr Sophie Christin-Maitre and Ms Leonie Schreck will give an overview of global infertility, its different causes and potential treatments, including the use and value of artificial reproductive technology for people with PCD and they will summarize current epidemiological evidence on the prevalence of infertility and ectopic pregnancies among people with PCD.

About the speakers:

Leonie Schreck is a medical doctor and PhD student at the University of Bern. She studies different topics important to people with PCD such as fertility, using questionnaire data directly collected from people with PCD. She manages the participatory study Living with PCD (formerly COVID-PCD) under the lead of Prof Claudia Kuehni. Living with PCD is an online study set up during the COVID-19 pandemic and enrols people with PCD from all over the world. The study team has recently sent out a fertility questionnaire to all participants and has collected information about fertility and fertility care from 384 people with PCD.

Sophie Christin-Maitre is MD, PhD, Professor of endocrinology in Sorbonne University, Paris, France. She is specialized in reproductive medicine. She is the head of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Reproductive Medicine Unit in St Antoine hospital in Paris. She coordinates a center for patients with rare diseases, especially patients with primary ovarian insufficiency and Turner syndrome. She is vice-dean of student’s life in Sorbonne University.