Publications by authors named "S Mestres"

Many health care professionals are dealing with the issue of transgender people in their medical practice. In the field of reproduction, Trans people can benefit from fertility preservation before the introduction of hormonal treatment or surgery altering their fertility. This article, which is the result of a collaborative work of several reproductive professionals involved in the health of Trans people, provides an overview of the possibilities of fertility preservation and medically assisted reproduction techniques in France for Trans people.

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Article Synopsis
  • Many transgender individuals have high reproductive desires, but fertility preservation and sperm donation options in France were limited until recently due to restrictive Bioethics Law.
  • A national survey conducted at 28 reproductive technology centers revealed that a significant number of these centers provide services for fertility preservation, with 71.4% treating transgender patients.
  • Results indicated that transgender women are more likely to seek and achieve fertility preservation compared to transgender men, and a notable percentage of centers offer sperm donation services for couples including transgender men.
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This prospective study aimed to determine the effects of dry nitrogen cryostorage on human sperm characteristics in comparison with liquid nitrogen cryostorage. For this purpose, 42 men undergoing routine semen analysis (21 normozoospermia and 21 with altered semen parameters) were analyzed. After slow freezing, half of the straws of each sample were randomly stored in liquid and dry tanks, at the top and bottom levels of the latter.

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Objective: To determine whether copeptin-us can rule out diagnosis of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) without prolonged monitoring and serial blood sampling in patients with high-sensitive cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) below the 99th centile at presentation to the emergency department (ED) [corrected].

Design: Prospective, non-randomised, individual blinded diagnostic accuracy study.

Setting: Two EDs of a rural region of France.

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