The number of children, adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer has been rising recently. Various oncological treatments have a detrimental effect on female fertility, and childbearing becomes a major issue during surveillance after recovery. This review discusses the impact of oncological treatments on the ovarian reserve with a thorough explanation of oncologic treatments' effects and modes of oncofertility procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Lichen sclerosus and lichen planus are two debilitating dermatoses. Their etiology remains unknown. Skin changes resulting from these disorders are important to understand, so we can provide targeted treatment to patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVulvar lichen sclerosus is chronic and difficult to treat disorder, which offer is recurrent and leads to multiple complications. The limited efficacy of pharmacologic treatment directed the search for new therapies including use of CO₂ laser. In our study we focused on collagen and elastin gene expression as well as heat shock proteins and p53 expression in two patients with vulvar lichen sclerosus who underwent CO₂ laser therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are proteins involved in protein folding and maturation. HSP expression is induced by heat shock or other stressors including cellular damage and hypoxia. The major groups, which are classified based on their molecular weight, include HSP27, HSP40, HSP60, HSP70, HSP90, and large HSP (HSP110 and glucose-regulated protein 170).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpen spina bifida is one of the most common congenital defects of the central nervous system. Open fetal surgery, which is one of the available therapeutic options, remains the gold standard for prenatal repairs. Fetoscopic closure may lower the number of maternal complications associated with open fetal surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of an alternative method of open fetal surgery to prevent severe unfavorable prenatal events, both for the mother and the fetus.
Material And Methods: In this study, the previously published results for a cohort of 46 patients, who had undergone intrauterine myelomeningocele repair (IUMR) at our Center by 2014, constituted the retrospective control group (CG). The MOMS protocol had been applied for hysterotomy, with an automatic uterine stapling device.