A few words about the donors
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However, when they decide to become donors, most women are motivated by a desire to help other couples realize their dream of becoming parents.
Greek law requires egg donation to remain anonymous. Donors usually come into contact with the Centre through various means. Each potential donor undergoes thorough medical and psychological screening before she is accepted into the Centre’s Egg Donor Program.
Usually, the medical information required regarding the donors is more than that required for the recipients.
Candidate donors
Every healthy woman < 35 years old with a healthy family history may, in theory, become an egg donor.
All candidate donors give a full account of their medical history, complete a genetic questionnaire and are then subject to extensive screening tests.
Donor Screening
Initially the donors are selected based on a number of parameters:
• Age
• Personality
• Education
• 4 Generation Family Health History
Further screening includes blood and urine analysis:
• Chemistry Panel
• Complete Blood Count
• Urinalysis
• ABO-Rh Blood typing
• HIV
• HTLV I/II
• Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
• Hepatitis B Core Antibody
• Hepatitis C Viral Antibody
• Syphilis (RPR)
• CMV IgG/IgM
• Chlamydia
• Gonorrheae
The genetic tests include the following:
• 4 generation family medical history, which is reviewed by a trained genetic specialist or a medical doctor (all donors)
• Cystic Fibrosis screening for 32-86 mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis gene (all Caucasian donors)
• Chromosome analysis (all donors)
• Thalassemia (all donors). An HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly. Please contact us if you would like to have your donor genetically screened for carrier status.
• Tay-Sachs disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish or French Canadian ancestry)
• Canavan disease disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
• Familial Dysautonomia (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
• Fanconi Anemia type C (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
• Gaucher disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
• Niemann-Pick type A disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
• Sickle Cell Disease (donors with African ancestry are genetically screened). For all donors an HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly.
• Canavan disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
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