Publications by authors named "F L Barry"
[Increasing the cumulative live birth rate: Low-grade blastocysts, potential overlook].
Gynecol Obstet Fertil Senol
December 2024
It is now widely recognized that, following prolonged culture, the transfer of a high-quality morphologically graded blastocyst is the preferred strategy in embryo transfer. Low-grade blastocysts are often considered to have a low implantation potential, and their use remains highly limited. We conducted a general review of the literature, including publications from August 2017 to October 2023, to assess the current state of knowledge regarding these embryos, which are generally excluded in routine practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfertility, defined as the inability to obtain pregnancy after 12 months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse, has increased in prevalence over the past decades, similarly to chronic, allergic, autoimmune, or neurodegenerative diseases. A recent ARIA-MeDALL hypothesis has proposed that all these diseases are linked to dysbiosis and to some cytokines such as interleukin 17 (IL-17) and interleukin 33 (IL-33). Our paper suggests that endometriosis, a leading cause of infertility, is linked to endometrial dysbiosis and two key cytokines, IL-17 and IL-33, which interact with intestinal dysbiosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In Guinea, despite women's recourse to antenatal care (ANC), little remains known about the use of focused antenatal care (FANC), contained in the ANC package.
Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the frequency and factors associated with FANC, using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2018.
Setting: This study was conducted in Guinea.
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- The study investigates the structural differences between the aortic root and pulmonary artery to understand how the pulmonary autograft dilates during the Ross procedure.
- Samples from twenty fetuses and four adults were analyzed using various histological and immunohistochemical techniques to compare elastic laminae and smooth muscle cells in both arterial walls.
- In adults, significant differences were found in these structures, suggesting that these microscopic variations influence the mechanical behavior of the pulmonary autograft and contribute to its dilation under systemic pressure after the procedure.
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- The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of an intradiscal injection of allogeneic bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) to a sham placebo in chronic low back pain patients.
- 114 participants were randomly assigned to receive either the BM-MSC injection or a placebo, and outcomes were measured over 12 months using pain and disability scales, along with MRI assessments.
- The results showed no significant difference in effectiveness between the BM-MSC and placebo groups after 12 months, although the procedure was deemed safe with no serious adverse events reported.