Fertility Does not Quarantine: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Impacts on in Vitro Fertilization Clinical Pregnancy Rates.

Objective:  To understand the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinical pregnancy rates and analyze factors that may have influenced their outcome.

Methods:  This was a retrospective observational study conducted at a tertiary-care Brazilian fertility center. All fresh IVF and embryo warming cycles performed from March 11 to December 31, 2018-2021 were analyzed, and their data were used to calculate fertilization, embryo cleavage, cycle cancellation, embryo transfer (ET), and clinical pregnancy rates.

Histological evaluation of capsules formed by silicon implants coated with polyurethane foam and with a textured surface in rats.

Purpose:: To assess the capsules formed by silicone implants coated with polyurethane foam and with a textured surface.

Methods:: Sixty-four Wistar albinus rats were divided into two groups of 32 each using polyurethane foam and textured surface. The capsules around the implants were analyzed for 30, 50, 70 and 90 days.

Immunohistochemical evaluation of estrogen and progesterone receptors of pre and post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Objective: To evaluate the immunoexpression of estrogen and progesterone receptors in biopsies and surgical specimens of patients with breast cancer before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and to correlate their changes with the pattern of response to chemotherapy and diagnosis of menopause.

Methods: We selected 47 patients with histological diagnosis of locally advanced primary breast carcinoma. For each patient there were two blocks: the biopsy specimen and surgical resection one.

[Platelet count and clinical profile of anticardiolipin positive leg ulcers].

Objective: To study the prevalence of anticardiolipin antibodies in patients with venous, diabetic and arterial leg ulcers and to verify if platelet count, previous history of venous thrombosis, obstetrical history and the finding of livedo reticularis are markers of this autoantibody positivity.

Methods: 151 patients with leg ulcer (81 with venous, 50 with diabetic and 20 with arterial ulcers) and 150 controls were included. In both groups search for the presence of IgG and IgM anticardiolipin and platelet count was done.

Comparative study in swines' vocal cords healing after excision of fragment with CO2 laser with mitomycin and 5-fluorouracil postoperative topical application.

Purpose: To evaluate the deposition of collagen fibers at pig's vocal folds after topical use of mitomycin or 5-fluorouracil, when partial exeresis of mucosa layer had been promoted by CO2 laser.

Methods: There were used 18 Larger white pigs which were anesthetized and submitted to mucosa fragment's exeresis, bilaterally, at its free border. The animals were divided into 3 groups, each one with 6 animals: control group, without topical drug application; mitomycin group; and 5-fluorouracil group.