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AUTHOR
Alicia Martínez-varea
The effect of warm ischemia at uterus transplantation in a rat model
Objective Uterus transplantation (UTx) has been proposed as a method to treat women with absolute uterine factor infertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the viability of the transplanted rat uterus after exposure to long warm ischemic times, in order to mimic a time frame likely to occur in a human situation during complicated pelvic vascular anastomosis surgery. Design Experimental study. Setting Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. Population Female Lewis rats. Methods. Pseudopregnant rats were randomly allocated into two intervention groups, a standardized syngeneic UTx procedure (control; n = 10) and a modified UTx protocol with a four hour extended period of warm ischemia (…
Pharmacologic therapies in endometriosis: a systematic review
To assess the literature on preclinical and clinical efficacy and safety data of pharmacologic groups proposed in the treatment of endometriosis, we performed a systematic review of publications from March 2002 to January 2012 via PubMed search. Additional relevant articles were identified from citations within these publications. A high number of medications were tested in preclinical models of endometriosis due to their theoretic capacity of disrupting important pathophysiologic pathways of the disease, such as inflammatory response, angiogenesis and cell survival, proliferation, migration, adhesion, and invasion. Tumor necrosis factor α-blockers, nuclear factor κB inhibitors, antiangioge…
The Maternal Cytokine and Chemokine Profile of Naturally Conceived Gestations Is Mainly Preserved duringIn VitroFertilization and Egg Donation Pregnancies
This prospective longitudinal study aimed at comparing maternal immune response among naturally conceived (NC;n=25),in vitrofertilization (IVF;n=25), and egg donation (ED;n=25) pregnancies. The main outcome measures were, firstly, to follow up plasma levels of interleukin (IL) 1beta, IL2, IL4, IL5, IL6, IL8, IL10, IL17, interferon gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ), regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), stromal cell-derived factor 1 alpha (SDF1α), and decidual granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) during the three trimesters of pregnancy during the three trimesters of pregnancy; secondly, t…
Risk factors associated with adverse fetal outcomes in pregnancies affected by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a secondary analysis of the WAPM study on COVID-19.
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the strength of association between maternal and pregnancy characteristics and the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnancies with laboratory confirmed COVID-19. Methods Secondary analysis of a multinational, cohort study on all consecutive pregnant women with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from February 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020 from 73 centers from 22 different countries. A confirmed case of COVID-19 was defined as a positive result on real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) assay of nasal and pharyngeal swab specimens. The primary outcome was a composite adverse fetal outcome, defined as the presence of either abortion (pre…