Wei Q

ORCID: 0009-0006-2563-4052 · 27 papers in corpus
case-report 2026
BMC pregnancy and childbirth ·doi:10.1186/s12884-026-09329-1

BACKGROUND: Choriocarcinoma coexisting with intrauterine pregnancy is extremely rare and necessitates early diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: A primigravida at 27+ weeks of gestation presented with a 3-day history of worsening abdominal pain. …

other 2026
Digital health ·doi:10.1177/20552076261467802

OBJECTIVE: Ultrasound imaging of the endometrium is often affected by speckle noise, low contrast, and physiological cycle variations, which lead to blurred boundaries and ambiguous structural representation. To address these challenges, th…

2026
International journal of women's health
qualitative 2025
International journal of women's health ·doi:10.2147/ijwh.s500794

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional experience of patients with thin endometrium (TE) who have repeatedly cancelled their cycles due to unsuitability for embryo implantation during the endometrial preparation p…

observational 2025
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/1471-0528.18089

OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of endometrial defects in the pathogenesis of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). DESIGN: Retrospective case-control study. SETTING: Two tertiary centres. POPULATION OR SAMPLE: We included 155 patients with ca…

lab-animal 2025
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62248-1

Uterine scarring is a common complication following uterine injury, characterized by abnormal wound healing in the endometrial or myometrial tissue. However, the underlying mechanisms contributing to scar formation remain unclear, impeding …

review 2025
Digital health ·doi:10.1177/20552076241310060

Diagnosis and treatment of endometrial diseases are crucial for women's health. Over the past decade, ultrasound has emerged as a non-invasive, safe, and cost-effective imaging tool, significantly contributing to endometrial disease diagnos…

lab-animal 2024
Frontiers in pharmacology ·doi:10.3389/fphar.2024.1492098

INTRODUCTION: Macranthoidin B is one of the primary and unique triterpenoid saponin metabolites from Lonicera macranthoides Hand. -Mazz, which is used to treat endometriosis (EMS) in traditional Chinese medicine. However, the effect of macr…

observational 2023
JAMA network open ·doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.6537

IMPORTANCE: A growing number of children are conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART). However, there is a lack of studies systematically analyzing the genetic landscape of live-born children conceived through ART who need inte…

observational 2023
American journal of translational research

OBJECTIVE: To explore the clinical application value of gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH-A) combined with low-dose HCG regimen in patients with high ovarian response based on clinical characteristics and laboratory indicators…

observational 2022
Frontiers in endocrinology ·doi:10.3389/fendo.2022.986567

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate HIF2α polymorphisms and glucose metabolism in a group of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or unexplained infertility (UI). PATIENTS: The infertile group (n=148) consisted of 96 women with PCOS, 52 women wi…

observational 2022
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000028992

We aimed to determine the clinical outcome of double cleavage-stage embryo transfers in frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles for older women.This study analyzed a total of 8189 cleavage-stage frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles between Jan…

observational 2022
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.34023

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) metabolism-related genes play an important role in the development of cancers. We assessed the associations of genetic variants in genes involved in the metabol…

observational 2022
Journal of clinical medicine ·doi:10.3390/jcm11206163

OBJECTIVES: Estrogen not only plays a key role in the decreased risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) but also influences its severity. We aimed to explore the effect of the reproductive lifespan on the motor progression of PD female patients in…

diagnostic-accuracy 2021
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-824061/v1

Abstract Background: Endometriosis is a common gynecologic pathology among reproductive-aged women. The lack of a definitive clinical symptom and a minimally invasive diagnostic method lead to a diagnostic latency of endometriosis. In this…

lab-animal 2021
International journal of biological sciences ·doi:10.7150/ijbs.60167

Previously the potential therapeutic action of ferulic acid, ligustrazine and tetrahydropalmatine (FLT) are discovered with unclear mechanism in rat autograft endometriosis. However, the effect of FLT on endometrial cells and allograft endo…

lab-animal 2021
PeerJ ·doi:10.7717/peerj.11664

BACKGROUND: The design of the combination of ferulic acid, ligustrazine and tetrahydropalmatine (FLT) is inspired by the Chinese herbal prescription Foshou San. Previous work has shown that FLT inhibited endometriosis growth in rat autograf…

lab-animal 2020
Chinese medical journal ·doi:10.1097/cm9.0000000000001132

BACKGROUND: Estrogen is involved in the pathophysiological process of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), in which epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays an important role. Upregulation of aquaporin (AQP) 5, which is directly activat…

lab-animal 2018
The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology ·doi:10.4196/kjpp.2018.22.6.627

Endometriosis (EM) is one of the most common gynaecological disorder affecting women in their reproductive age. Mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of EM remains poorly understood, however inflammatory responses have been reported to be…

diagnostic-accuracy 2014
Abdominal imaging ·doi:10.1007/s00261-014-0314-7

PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of enhanced T2 star-weighted angiography (ESWAN) in differentiating endometrial from non-endometrial cysts. METHODS: Forty-nine patients with 60 histopathologically proven ovarian cystic lesions underwe…

observational 2013
Carcinogenesis ·doi:10.1093/carcin/bgs407

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have mainly focused on top significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), most of which did not have clear biological functions but were just surrogates for unknown causal variants. Studying SNPs…

observational 2011
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.018

Nuclear and cytoplasmic endometrial expression of Indian hedgehog increased from the late proliferative to mid and late secretory phases in 26 healthy volunteers compared with 30 women with endometriosis. The abnormal expression of Indian h…

observational 2011
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.958

We performed a genome-wide association study of melanoma in a discovery cohort of 2,168 Australian individuals with melanoma and 4,387 control individuals. In this discovery phase, we confirm several previously characterized melanoma-associ…

observational 2011
Human molecular genetics ·doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr415

We performed a multistage genome-wide association study of melanoma. In a discovery cohort of 1804 melanoma cases and 1026 controls, we identified loci at chromosomes 15q13.1 (HERC2/OCA2 region) and 16q24.3 (MC1R) regions that reached genom…

rct 2010
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.057

OBJECTIVE: To test potential contraceptive mechanisms of the selective P receptor modulator CDB-2914 in the early luteal phase. DESIGN: Prospective randomized clinical trial. SETTING: Clinical research center. PATIENT(S): Fifty-six women…