Fast and furious: successful survival and resumption of meiosis in immature human oocytes vitrified and warmed using a short protocol.

Research Question: Can immature oocytes vitrified and warmed using a short protocol survive and resume meiosis?

Design: This study examined modifications of oocyte vitrification and warming protocols that reduce the length of exposure to vitrification and warming solutions. In total, 561 germinal vesicles and 218 metaphase I oocytes that were immature at oocyte retrieval were vitrified at room temperature for 2 min. Warming was performed at 37°C for 2 min.

Fast and furious: pregnancy outcome with one-step rehydration in the warming protocol for human blastocysts.

Research Question: Do embryos warmed using a one-step rehydration protocol with a more efficient workflow result in comparable pregnancy rates to the standard multi-step rehydration protocol?

Design: A retrospective cohort study of 3439 frozen embryo transfers (FET). Clinical outcomes of 833 FETs using a one-step rehydration protocol were reviewed and compared with results from the control group (2606 FETs using standard multi-step rehydration protocol). Primary outcome was ongoing pregnancy rate.

Data on pain coping strategies and their association with quality of life in people with Parkinson's disease: A cross-sectional study.

This article presents data about coping with pain and health-related quality of life from 52 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) (without PD dementia). Coping was assessed using Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ), including active/passive and cognitive/behavioral coping strategies and the felt efficacy of the coping strategies used. In addition, common PD specific assessments were recorded.

Pain coping strategies and their association with quality of life in people with Parkinson's disease: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To develop multidimensional approaches for pain management, this study aimed to understand how PD patients cope with pain.

Design: Cross-sectional, cohort study.

Setting: Monocentric, inpatient, university hospital.

Vitrification: A Simple and Successful Method for Cryostorage of Human Blastocysts.

Cryopreservation is one of the keystones in clinical infertility treatment. Especially vitrification has become a well-established and widely used routine procedure that allows important expansion of therapeutic strategies when IVF is used to treat infertility. Vitrification of human blastocysts allows us to maximize the potential for conception from any one in vitro fertilization cycle and prevents wastage of embryos.