Publications by authors named "Maria Synnott"

Aim: Report the outcomes of pregnant women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and to identify modifiable and non-modifiable factors associated with poor outcomes.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of pregnancy preparedness, pregnancy care and outcomes in the Republic of Ireland from 2015 to 2020 and subsequent multivariate analysis.

Results: In total 1104 pregnancies were included.

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Prediction of outcome for melanoma patients with surgically resected macroscopic nodal metastases is very imprecise. We performed a comprehensive clinico-pathologic assessment of fresh-frozen macroscopic nodal metastases and the preceding primary melanoma, somatic mutation profiling, and gene expression profiling to identify determinants of outcome in 79 melanoma patients. In addition to disease stage 4 years, 90% confidence interval): the presence of a nodular component in the primary melanoma (6.

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Aims: Primary cutaneous desmoplastic melanoma (DM) may be entirely desmoplastic ['pure' DM (pDM)] or exhibit a desmoplastic component admixed with a non-desmoplastic component ['combined' DM (cDM)]. Our aim was to describe the histological features of metastases of primary DM and to determine whether they were predictive of outcome.

Methods: The effect of clinicopathological parameters on overall survival (OS) was analysed, and the correlation between histological features of the primary melanoma and metastases was studied in patients with metastatic DM.

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