Publications by authors named "Mia Watanabe"
Article Synopsis
- a significant gap in access to hormonal contraception in rural areas.
- The study revealed that while only 31% of participants were aware of pharmacists' prescribing abilities, support and acceptability for this service were high after education on the topic.
- A majority of respondents expressed interest in obtaining contraception from pharmacists, indicating potential for improved reproductive health access in rural communities.
Purpose: To examine how differences in trophectoderm biopsy techniques affect the frequency of mosaic embryos and sequencing results.
Methods: We examined differences in next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis results among operators or according to biopsy technique. Additionally, we determined the cut-off for the number of collected cells to predict the occurrence of mosaicism.
Purpose: This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a new trophectoderm (TE) biopsy method that does not require prior opening of the zona pellucida at the blastocyst stage.
Methods: TE biopsy was conducted using a modified extrusion method for embryos during the cleavage stage. In this method, culture medium was injected into the perivitelline space to help extrude TE cells from the zona pellucida before TE biopsy.
Purpose: To compare the clinical outcomes of embryo transfers that were cryopreserved and thawed two or three times with those cryopreserved and thawed once by CryoTip.
Methods: Data for 388 single cryopreserved-thawed blastocyst transfer cycles, performed from April 2012 to March 2014, were assessed. The blastocysts were classified into three groups: blastocysts (A) cryopreserved once, (B) cryopreserved twice, and (C) cryopreserved three times.