Hourvitz A

No ORCID on file · 8 papers in corpus · active 2014-2026

Study types

  • other 3

Condition tags

  • infertility 3
  • endometriosis 2
other 2026
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2026.03.020

OBJECTIVE: To examine intrapatient variability in retrieved oocyte numbers across consecutive in vitro fertilization (IVF) ovarian stimulation (OS) cycles with an identical OS protocol. DESIGN: Cross-continental, multicenter retrospective …

2023
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-023-47241-2

Ultrasound monitoring and hormonal blood testing are considered by many as an accurate method to predict ovulation time. However, uniform and validated algorithms for predicting ovulation have yet to be defined. Daily hormonal tests and tra…

2022
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/s10815-022-02544-7

PurposeTo investigate the association between endometrial compaction and pregnancy rates in unstimulated natural cycle frozen embryo transfers.DesignA single-center prospective cohort study. Endometrial thickness by transvaginal ultrasound …

2022
Human reproduction (Oxford, England)

Abstract Study question Is there an influence of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on ovarian response and in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment outcomes? Summary answer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine did not affect the ovarian response nor pregnancy rates in …

other 2022
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-021-00650-y

Based on a previous global transcriptome sequencing project, we hypothesized that Lumican (LUM) might play a role in ovulatory processes. We sought to determine LUM gene expression under various conditions in human preovulatory follicles. T…

other 2020
Journal of ovarian research ·doi:10.1186/s13048-020-0612-3

BACKGROUND: DCN (decorin) is a proteoglycan known to be involved in regulating cell proliferation, collagen fibril organization and migration. In our global transcriptome RNA-sequencing approach to systematically identify new ovulation-asso…

2019
Journal of ovarian research ·doi:10.1186/s13048-019-0495-3

BackgroundThe cumulus expansion process is one of the LH mediated ovulatory processes. Hyaluronan synthase 2 (HAS2) regulates the synthesis of hyaluronic acid, the main component of the cumulus expansion process. Recently, the lncRNA HAS2 a…

2014
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090359

ObjectiveTo investigate the mRNA expression of genes related to steroidogenesis and OHSS in granulosa cells (GCs) of patients triggered with GnRH agonist compared to patients triggered with hCG.DesignMural GCs were obtained at the time of o…