Publications by authors named "Yu-Lun Ku"

Objective: To investigate the associations between time interval from myomectomy to pregnancy (TIMP) and subsequent pregnancy and obstetric complications, and to explore whether these associations vary according to maternal age at birth.

Methods: A retrospective population-based cohort study was conducted from 2008 to 2017. Data were extracted from the National Health Insurance Research Database and the Taiwan Maternal and Child Health Database, comprising 2024 379 births from 1 391 856 pregnancies.

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Rationale: Tubal sterilization as a contraception method has a high success rate; however, it also carries a low risk of incidental pregnancy. A majority of these pregnancies are ectopic. In this study, we report a rare case of spontaneous right distal tubal pregnancy after bilateral laparoscopic tubal sterilization.

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Objective: Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is widely used as a powerful screening tool to detect common aneuploidies. However, its application for detection of rare chromosomal abnormalities remains inconclusive.

Case Report: A 38-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 0) requested NIPT as a primary screening test for fetal aneuploidies at 13 weeks and 1 day of gestation.

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