Reproductive performance and obstetric outcomes after hysteroscopic septum resection.

Purpose: The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate the effects of hysteroscopic uterine septum resection on the clinical pregnancy rate (CPR), live birth rate (LBR) and miscarriage rate.

Materials And Method(s): Hospital records of consecutive patients who underwent hysteroscopic uterine septum resection between February 2021 and December 2022 were reviewed. They were telephoned and interviewed about their reproductive performance after surgery, and pregnancy outcomes, if achieved.

Study of uterine and fetal hemodynamics in response to labor induction with dinoprostone in prolonged pregnancies with normal amniotic fluid and oligohydramnios.

Objective: We investigated the effects of labor induction with Dinoprostone on uteroplacental and fetal circulations with Doppler velocimetry in prolonged pregnancies with and without oligohydramnios.

Methods: We performed Doppler evaluations of Uterine A, Umbilical A and Middle Cerebral A. (MCA) in 117 patients (27 associated with oligohydramnios) just before and 6 h after the administration of Dinoprostone.

Association of serum estradiol levels on the day of hCG administration with pregnancy rates and embryo scores in fresh ICSI/ET cycles down regulated with either GnRH agonists or GnRH antagonists.

Purpose: To investigate the interrelation between serum E2 level on hCG day, score of transferred embryos and pregnancy achievement.

Methods: Records of 350 women aged 18-40 years who underwent ovarian hyperstimulation in fresh cycles down regulated either with GnRH agonist (n = 70) or GnRH antagonist (n = 280) followed by oocyte pick-up, ICSI and embryo transfer are retrospectively analyzed.

Results: Median E2 levels on hCG day of cycles ending with and without pregnancy were similar (p = 0.

Roles of E-cadherin and cyclooxygenase enzymes in predicting different survival patterns of optimally cytoreduced serous ovarian cancer patients.

The relation between cyclooxygenase enzymes and E-cadherin, along with the roles of these markers in the prediction of survival in optimally cytoreduced serous ovarian cancer patients was investigated. Individuals who underwent primary staging surgery and achieved optimal cytoreduction (largest residual tumor volume<1 cm) constituted the study population. Specimens of 32 cases were immunohistochemically examined for cyclooxygenase-1, cyclooxygenase-2, and E-cadherin.

Detection of IL-1β in culture media supernatants of pre-implantation human embryos; its relation with embryo grades and development.

In this study, we aimed to determine whether human embryos secrete interleukin-1β (IL-1β) into culture media and its correlation with embryo grade and development. Culture media supernatants of 100 embryos obtained from 39 cycles of 38 patients and cultivated individually were collected 2 and 3 days after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). IL-1β concentrations of samples were determined with ELISA and compared with embryo grades and blastomere numbers.

Comparison of hysterosalpingography and hysteroscopy in the evaluation of the uterine cavity in patients undergoing assisted reproductive techniques.

Objective: To investigate the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography (HSG) for intracavitary and structural uterine pathologies in comparison with hysteroscopy (HS) in patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer and also to specify the patients who should be subjected to HS in the early stages of an infertility work-up.

Design: Retrospective analysis.

Setting: IVF unit of a university hospital.

The role of low-molecular-weight heparin in recurrent implantation failure: a prospective, quasi-randomized, controlled study.

Low-molecular-weight heparin did not provide any beneficial effect on pregnancy outcomes in patients with two or more implantation failures. Further trials are needed to confirm a trend in favor of low-molecular-weight heparin in the subgroup with women with three or more implantation failures.

Surgical second-look in epithelial ovarian cancer: high recurrence rate after negative results and lack of survival benefit limits its role in standard management.

Objective: To evaluate the role of surgical second look (SSL) in epithelial ovarian cancer.

Material And Methods: One hundred and seventy-one patients clinically free of disease were assessed retrospectively. Ninety-eight (57.

Heterotopic cesarean scar pregnancy: how should it be managed?

Heterotopic cesarean scar pregnancy is an extremely rare condition that may cause life-threatening complications. A 24-year-old woman gravida 2, para 1, presented with vaginal bleeding. Vaginal sonography demonstrated 2 gestational sacs containing viable embryos, one located in the uterine fundus and the other in the previous cesarean scar.

Cervical intramural ectopic pregnancy.

Objective: To describe a cervical intramural ectopic pregnancy.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Maternity hospital.

Serum levels of adenosine deaminase and pregnancy-related hormones in hyperemesis gravidarum.

Objectives: We investigated the correlation between pregnancy-related hormones and serum adenosine deaminase (indicator of cellular immunity) level in women with hyperemesis gravidarum.

Materials And Methods: Twenty patients with hyperemesis gravidarum and 20 normal pregnancies were included in this prospective, case-control study. Serum adenosine deaminase levels, hematological parameters (white blood cells, neutrophil, monocyte and lymphocyte counts) and hormone levels (prolactin, progesterone, thyroid stimulating hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit, estradiol (E2)) were measured in all women.

Aggressive mixed type endometrial carcinoma in a young woman with rapid progression and fatal outcome.

Introduction: Endometrial carcinoma in young ages is uncommon and tends to be a well differentiated endometrioid type and has an excellent prognosis. Nevertheless, in this report mixed type endometrial cancer including serous, clear cell and endometrioid components in a young patient with rapid progression and fatal outcome is presented.

Case: A 26-year-old virgin female was admitted with menometrohagia lasting for 9 months, leading to severe anemia.

Primary ovarian leiomyosarcoma: a review of the clinical and immunohistochemical features of the rare tumor.

Unlabelled: Primary pure ovarian leiomyosarcomas constitute a malignant subgroup of ovarian smooth muscle tumors which comprise only 1% of ovarian tumors. Their origin, etiology, histologic features, clinical behavior, and optimal treatment are still obscure. Malignant behavior is almost always associated with any 2 of coagulative necrosis, cellular atypia, and mitotic index greater than 10.

Absence of endometrium as a cause of primary amenorrhea.

Objective: To describe congenital endometrial absence.

Design: Case report.

Setting: University hospital.