OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the clinical features of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome patients with functional uterine remnants and endometriosis in a large cohort of Chinese patients. DESIGN: This was a retrospe…
BACKGROUND: Some studies have stated that intrauterine insemination (IUI) with controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) might increase the pregnancy rate, while others suggest that IUI in the natural cycle (NC) should be the first line of treat…
BACKGROUND: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD), one of the common gynecological diseases, is more common in adolescent women. According to epidemiological investigation, the incidence of PD accounts for about 60% of all patients with dysmenorrhea, a…
RATIONALE: Eccrine spiradenoma (ES) is a rare benign skin adnexal tumor originating from eccrine sweat glands. The features of ES on ultrasonography (US) have received little attention. Therefore, we report the sonographic findings in a cas…
Aim: To explore the circular RNA (circRNA) profile in cumulus cells from endometriosis-associated infertility patients. Methods: The expression of circRNAs was profiled by high-throughput sequencing. Sanger sequencing was performed to ident…
BACKGROUND: We recently demonstrated the increased abundance of anti-trophoblast antibodies (ATAB) in sera of patients with unexplained recurrent miscarriages (uRM). Further, the ATAB-positive sera bound to JEG-3 human choriocarcinoma cells…
PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between serum/follicular fluid fetuin-B levels and fertilization outcomes in conventional IVF cycles. METHODS: A prospective cohort study of conventional IVF treatments including 78 cycles with low …
IVF is currently regarded as a successful new technology with the number of IVF children currently well over 8 million worldwide. This has been achieved by an explosive plethora of facilities. However, from its earliest history, IVF has bee…
Normal pregnancy is a state of hypercoagulability with diminishing fibrinolytic activity, which is mainly caused by an increase of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1). PAI-1 is the main inhibitor of plasminogen activators, includ…
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the short-term and long-term outcomes after laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) compared with abdominal hysterectomy (AH) in case of benign gynecological disease. METHODS: A multi-center cohort retrospective comparative …
PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the association of CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 polymorphisms with uterine leiomyoma in Chinese women. METHODS: We investigated 100 women with clinically diagnosed uterine leiomyoma and 110 healthy normal…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the correlation between glutathione S-transferase (GST) M1 and T1 genotypes and endometriosis risk (EM). METHODS: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique was used to detect the presence or absence of the GSTM1 a…