ABSTRACT Introduction Preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic diseases (PGT‐M) is a reproductive option for couples at high risk of transmitting inherited disorders. We report a ten‐year single‐centre PGT‐M experience in families at risk of hemophilia.
Mimosa Mortarino +6 more
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Tolerability of hormonal treatments in acute hepatic porphyria patients
Abstract Background Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) flares have been associated with female hormones and the use of hormonal treatments. Women with AHP are traditionally advised to avoid exogenous oestrogen and progesterone, limiting options for contraception and management of menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea and menopausal symptoms.
Andjela Arandjelovic +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Social support facilitates physical and mental health in the perinatal period for parents and their children. Yet, little is known about what predicts who will have access to support during this uniquely challenging time. From a life course perspective, the foundations of perinatal social support are likely to be evident well before
Ebony J. Biden +13 more
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Participação do fator de crescimento fibroblástico 18 (FGF18) na maturação nuclear oocitária, expansão das células do cumulus e produção in vitro de embriões bovinos [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Celular e do Desenvolvimento, Florianópolis, 2015.Este trabalho propôs estudar a ação do Fator de Crescimento ...
Silva, Yago Pinto da
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Offspring's School Grades by Maternal Education
ABSTRACT Background Children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) often achieve higher school grades than spontaneously conceived peers in unadjusted analyses, a pattern largely attributed to the socio‐economic advantage of parents who use ART.
Alice Goisis, Øystein Kravdal
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Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics [PDF]
Although policymakers have increasingly turned to provider report cards as a tool to improve health care quality, existing studies provide mixed evidence that they influence consumer choices.
Gopi Shah Goda +3 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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HLA-G MOLECULES: FROM EMBRYO IMPLANTATION TO OOCYTE MATURATION [PDF]
Background Assisted reproduction technique (ART) pregnancy rates have not changed in recent years and an increased risk of twins, triplets or higher order pregnancies leads to a perinatal mortality and morbidity.
Rizzo, Roberta
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Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
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Analysis of the Association between In Vitro Fertilization/Assisted Conception and the Development of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Very-Low-Birth Weight Newborns [PDF]
Objective: The objective is to study to what extent the development of retinopathy of prematu rity (ROP) is associated with assisted conception (AC) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) in a tertiary referral hospital.
Elisabeth Fernández-Marin +8 more
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