Impact of dietary counseling on the perception of diet in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus.

Aims/introduction: Medical nutrition therapy is the cornerstone of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) treatment. Patients with GDM should receive dietary counseling regarding diet and exercise.

Materials And Methods: To study patients' perception level of diet and their level of understanding after dietary counseling, we analyzed 225 reports of dietary counseling of patients with GDM prepared by dieticians.

The utility of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with circulatory collapse by electrical storm.

In patients experiencing electrical storm, intensive care using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an efficient treatment to overcome a hemodynamically unstable condition. The aim of this study was to examine the utility of ECMO in patients with circulatory collapse by electrical storm. We retrospectively examined 17 consecutive patients receiving veno-arterial ECMO for electrical storm between January 2016 and December 2018 in our institution.

Clinical evaluation of a new dispersive aortic cannula.

Introduction: Cerebral injury is a serious complication in open-heart surgery. Once it occurs, it causes significant disability and death. We developed a novel dispersive aortic cannula named the Stealth Flow cannula and used it as a standard aortic cannula in cardiopulmonary bypass.

Interference with pulse oximetry by the Stealth Station™ Image Guidance System.

Background: A pulse oximeter is one of the most important monitors to save patients undergoing anesthesia and monitored sedation. The authors report a case of orthopedic surgery, in which interference of pulse oximetry occurred when using a Stealth Station™ navigation system (Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN). Applying a black plastic shield (Masimo Ambient Shield: Masimo Corporation, Irvine, CA) completely eliminated the interference.

Blastocyst collapse is not an independent predictor of reduced live birth: a time-lapse study.

Objective: To ascertain the rate of blastocyst collapse observed by time-lapse monitoring in a retrospective cohort of unselected infertile patients undergoing single blastocyst transfer and to determine its association with live birth.

Design: Blastocyst collapse and morphokinetic variables were scored according to previously published criteria. The association between blastocyst collapse and live birth was evaluated by a multivariate logistic regression analysis including morphokinetic variables and other confounders.

Time-lapse variables and embryo gender: a retrospective analysis of 81 live births obtained following minimal stimulation and single embryo transfer.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine which morphokinetic variables are related to embryo gender in a cohort of consecutive live births obtained through single blastocyst transfer following mild ovarian stimulation.

Methods: Eighty-one live births (49 % of them females) from successfully treated, consecutive infertile patients (maternal age 36.9 ± 3.

Influence of different oocyte insemination techniques on early and late morphokinetic parameters: retrospective analysis of 500 time-lapse monitored blastocysts.

Objective: To determine how standard IVF vs. intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) fertilization influences early and late morphokinetic parameters during prolonged embryo culture.

Design: Five-hundred expanded blastocysts that were monitored in a time-lapse monitoring incubator were analysed retrospectively.

Time-lapse monitoring of zona pellucida-free embryos obtained through in vitro fertilization: a retrospective case series.

Objective: To report time-lapse monitoring of human oocytes in which the damaged zona pellucida was removed, producing zona-free (ZF) oocytes that were cultured until the blastocyst stage in time-lapse incubators.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Setting: Private infertility clinic.

Cumulative success rates following mild IVF in unselected infertile patients: a 3-year, single-centre cohort study.

A 3-year, retrospective, single-centre cohort study was conducted in a private infertility centre to determine cumulative live birth rates (LBR) per scheduled oocyte retrieval following minimal ovarian stimulation/natural-cycle IVF in unselected infertile patients. A total of 727 consecutive infertile patients were analysed who underwent 2876 (median 4) cycles with scheduled oocyte retrieval from November 2008 to December 2011. Natural-cycle IVF or clomiphene-based minimal ovarian stimulation was coupled with single-embryo transfer and increased use of delayed vitrified-warmed blastocyst transfer.

Oocyte retrieval timing based on spontaneous luteinizing hormone surge during natural cycle in vitro fertilization treatment.

Objective: To determine the efficiency of oocyte retrieval (OR) timing based on the occurrence of spontaneous LH surge during natural cycle IVF (ncIVF) treatment.

Design: Retrospective cohort study. The cohort was divided into five subgroups according to the presumed stage of spontaneous LH surge on scheduling day (1A: before onset; 1B: surge start; 2: ascending slope; 3: peak; and 4: descending slope).