Publications by authors named "Mei-Ling Hsieh"
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- Uremic pruritus is a severe symptom affecting dialysis patients, leading to diminished quality of life and increased health risks, highlighting the need for effective treatments.
- This review explored the use of non-invasive acupoint therapy as a therapeutic approach to alleviate uremic pruritus based on domestic and international research.
- The meta-analysis, which included 597 participants, found that non-invasive acupoint therapy significantly reduces itching, although the analysis revealed high heterogeneity among the included studies, necessitating further exploration of treatment combinations like acupoint massage with traditional Chinese medicine.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are known to play a role in postnatal vasculogenesis and hold great promise for vascular regeneration. However, the mechanisms by which the endothelial differentiation and specification of MSCs remain unclear. We examined the potential role and molecular mechanisms of atypical chemokine receptor ACKR3/CXCR7 in MSC-mediated endothelial cell differentiation and specification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To investigate the possibility of cryopreservation of spermatozoa obtained from percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration (PESA) in patients with obstructive azoospermia and the feasibility of intentional dissociation of PESA and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles.
Methods: Fifty-six patients with obstructive azoospermia underwent diagnostic PESA before ovarian stimulation. If spermatozoa were found, they were frozen for subsequent ICSI.
Background: The introduction of GnRH antagonists such as cetrorelix acetate has made possible the simplification of ovarian stimulation. However, the most effective protocol for their administration has not yet been clearly defined.
Methods: Forty women with male-factor infertility undergoing 40 ICSI cycles were included in the study.
The first report of an ectopic pregnancy following IVF was published in 1976, and since then heterotopic pregnancies (HPs) have been reported at an increasing rate. Although cases of the co-existence of a bilateral tubal and an intrauterine pregnancy following IVF-embryo transfer have been reported, a case of heterotopic triplet pregnancy caused by unilateral tubal embryo transfer has not yet been published in the literature. Here we report on a 38-year-old women (gravida 3, para 1) with a history of infertility who presented to our infertility clinic for evaluation.
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