Obstetrics & Gynecology

Age as A Predictor of Embryo Quality Regardless of The Quantitative Ovarian Response.

BACKGROUND: One determining factor of a successful fertilization (IVF) cycle is embryo quality. The aim of the present study was to evaluate associations of embryo quality and reserve markers like age, FSH and AMH.

Effects of Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension diet on androgens, antioxidant status and body composition in overweight and obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disease in reproductive age women. The present study aimed to determine the effects of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet on reproductive hormones, plasma total antioxidant status and anthropometric indices in overweight and obese PCOS women.

Preoperative assessment of lymph node metastasis in endometrial cancer: A Korean Gynecologic Oncology Group study.

BACKGROUND: Previously proposed criteria for preoperatively identifying endometrial cancer patients at low risk for lymph node metastasis remain to be...

The Pre-Eclampsia Ontology: A Disease Ontology Representing the Domain Knowledge Specific to Pre-Eclampsia.

Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a clinical syndrome characterized by new-onset hypertension and proteinuria at ≥20 weeks of gestation, and is a leading cause of...

Effect of combination of Dunal and Linn on letrozole induced polycystic ovarian syndrome in rats.

BACKGROUND: To investigate the effect of the combination of hydroalcoholic extract of (WS) and (TT) on letrozole induced polycystic ovarian syndrome...

Predicting early psychiatric readmission with natural language processing of narrative discharge summaries.

The ability to predict psychiatric readmission would facilitate the development of interventions to reduce this risk, a major driver of psychiatric he...

System Integration and In Vivo Testing of a Robot for Ultrasound Guidance and Monitoring During Radiotherapy.

We are developing a cooperatively controlled robot system for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) in which a clinician and robot share control of a ...

Bioactive properties and functional constituents of Hypericum androsaemum L.: A focus on the phenolic profile.

Hypericum androsaemum L. ethanol:water extract acted as a lipid peroxidation inhibitor and free radical scavenger. A marked inhibition of the growth o...

A Mass Spectrometric Analysis Method Based on PPCA and SVM for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer.

Background. Surfaced-enhanced laser desorption-ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) technology plays an important role in the ea...

Executable medical guidelines with Arden Syntax-Applications in dermatology and obstetrics.

INTRODUCTION: Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are being developed to assist physicians in processing extensive data and new knowledge based ...

Prediction of selective estrogen receptor beta agonist using open data and machine learning approach.

BACKGROUND: Estrogen receptors (ERs) are nuclear transcription factors that are involved in the regulation of many complex physiological processes in ...

Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction with Semi-Supervision (AdDReSS): Classifying Multi-Attribute Biomedical Data.

Medical diagnostics is often a multi-attribute problem, necessitating sophisticated tools for analyzing high-dimensional biomedical data. Mining this ...

Morbidly Adherent Placenta: Its Management and Maternal and Perinatal Outcome.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to identify the risk factors predisposing to morbidly adherent placenta and to study the different modes of manag...

Development and characterization of methoxy poly(ethylene oxide)--poly(ε-caprolactone) (PEO--PCL) micelles as vehicles for the solubilization and delivery of tacrolimus.

Tacrolimus is a potent immunosuppressant; however, it suffers from several problems such as poor water solubility (4-12 μg/mL), low and variable oral ...

Robot-assisted excision of cervical cystic hygroma through a retroauricular hairline approach: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Cystic hygroma is a rare benign abnormality of the lymphatic system generally occurring in young children less than 2 years old. The stand...

Overweight postmenopausal women with different plasma estradiol concentrations present with a similar pattern of energy expenditure and substrate oxidation rate before and after a fatty meal challenge.

Menopause-related withdrawal of ovarian estrogens is associated with reduced energy metabolism and overall impairment of substrate oxidation. Estradio...

High resolution ion chamber array delivery quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery: Commissioning and validation.

PURPOSE: High precision radiosurgery demands comprehensive delivery-quality-assurance techniques. The use of a liquid-filled ion-chamber-array for rob...

Comment: Survival rate comparisons amongst cervical cancer patients treated with an open, robotic-assisted or laparoscopic radical hysterectomy: A five year experience.

Depolymerizable Poly(O-vinyl carbamate--sulfones) as Customizable Macromolecular Scaffolds for Mucosal Drug Delivery.

Interest in stimulus responsive materials and polymers has grown over the years, having shown great promise in a diverse set of applications. For drug...

A machine learning approach to the accurate prediction of multi-leaf collimator positional errors.

Discrepancies between planned and delivered movements of multi-leaf collimators (MLCs) are an important source of errors in dose distributions during ...