Purpose: This study aims to explore the impact of a woman's previous cesarean delivery (CD) on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes for subsequent in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) and single frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET), compared with vaginal delivery (VD).
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study that included a total of 5817 patients who desired to transfer a single vitrified-thawed blastocyst from the same oocyte retrieval cycle as their last live birth between January 2011 and January 2021 at a single reproductive medicine center. Patients with a single previous CD were classified in the CD group, while those with a single VD were assigned to the VD group.
Reprod Biomed Online
November 2023
Research Question: Do infertile women with positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results have a higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes after IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection and embryo transfer (ICSI-ET) and does preventive anti-tuberculosis treatment applied to infertile women with positive TST results before IVF/ICSI-ET affect pregnancy and neonatal outcomes?
Design: This was a retrospective cohort analysis of 6283 infertile women who underwent IVF/ICSI-ET treatment for the first time at the Reproductive Hospital affiliated to Shandong University from November 2016 to September 2022. None of the participants had prior tuberculosis or active tuberculosis. According to their TST results, 5947 patients who had never received preventive anti-tuberculosis treatment were divided into a TST-positive group (1704 cases) and a TST-negative group (4243 cases).
Objective: To explore the prognostic impact of a previous late miscarriage (LM) on the subsequent pregnancy outcomes of women with infertility.
Method: This retrospective cohort study included couples who had experienced LM following their first embryo transfer during an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle from January 2008 to December 2020. Subgroup analysis and binary logistic regression were performed to evaluate the associations between LM due to different causes and subsequent pregnancy outcomes.
Objective: To evaluate whether prolonged storage of vitrified blastocysts negatively impacts pregnancy and neonatal outcomes.
Design: A retrospective cohort study.
Setting: University hospital.
To analyze the brain CT imaging data of children with cerebral palsy (CP), deep learning-based electronic computed tomography (CT) imaging information characteristics were used, thereby providing help for the rehabilitation analysis of children with CP and comorbid epilepsy. The brain CT imaging data of 73 children with CP were collected, who were outpatients or inpatients in our hospital. The images were randomly divided into two groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo investigate whether sublabial mucosa is more suitable for evaluation of microcirculation than commonly used sublingual mucosa in ICU patients, we enrolled 57 adults (47 critically ill patients and 10 volunteers) at convenience from Oct 2018 to Jan 2019. Videomicroscopy images at both sublingual mucosa and sublabial mucosa were acquired at the same time in each enrollee. Qualified images were recorded for later analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Increasing evidence suggests that heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) has a protective effect in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy; however, the protective mechanism remains unclear.
Methods: Previous studies have also implicated autophagy in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy. The aim of the current study was to reveal the protective mechanisms of Hsp70 in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy using a cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) rat sepsis model.
A semismooth Newton method, based on variational inequalities and generalized derivative, is designed and analysed for unilateral contact problem between two membranes. The problem is first formulated as a corresponding regularized problem with a nonlinear function, which can be solved by the semismooth Newton method. We prove the convergence of the method in the function space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Clinicians and researchers have a very limited understanding of how acute pain after cardiac surgery may develop into chronic pain. The aims of this study were to describe the pattern of pain during the first 3 months after cardiac surgery and to examine the predictors of surgery-related chronic pain.
Design: A prospective panel study was conducted to monitor changes in worst and average pain intensity before and during the first 3 months following cardiac surgery in a sample of Taiwanese patients.