Wiltshire, Ashley Brayboy, Lynae M Phillips, Kiwita Matthews, Roland Yan, Fengxia McCarthy-Keith, Desiree
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Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
BackgroundTo assess infertility knowledge and treatment beliefs among African American women in an urban community in Atlanta, Georgia.MethodsThis was a cross sectional study at a safety net hospital. A convenience sample of a total of 158 women receiving outpatient obstetrical or gynecologic care from March–April 2017 were recruited. Infertility k...
Wang, Qiao Deng, Haiping Cheng, Ke Huang, Zouqin Yin, Xiuqi Zhou, Yichen Yang, Yiqin Shen, Weidong Zhao, Ling Shen, Xueyong
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Trials
BackgroundPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine diseases for women. Acupuncture is widely used for the infertile female because of it is non-invasive and has fewer side effects, but the powerful evidence for the clinic is still insufficient. Our study intends to explore the effect of manual acupuncture (MA) in the inf...
Maroufizadeh, Saman Omani-Samani, Reza Almasi-Hashiani, Amir Amini, Payam Sepidarkish, Mahdi
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundDepression in patients with infertility often goes undiagnosed and untreated. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and its ultra-brief version (i.e. PHQ-2) are widely used measures of depressive symptoms. These scales have not been validated in patients with infertility. The aim of the present study was to examine the reliability an...
村上, 直子
Citation: Clinica Chimica Acta, 495, pp.545-551; 2019
Bakhtiyar, Katayoun Beiranvand, Ramin Ardalan, Arash Changaee, Farahnaz Almasian, Mohammad Badrizadeh, Afsaneh Bastami, Fatemeh Ebrahimzadeh, Farzad
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundHuman instinctively desire to have offspring. Infertility can cause painful emotional experiences throughout the life mainly known as quality of life impairment. This study aimed to investigate the impact of infertility on a woman’s quality of life.MethodsA number of 180 infertile and 540 fertile women participated in this matched case-co...
Sun, Hongmei Lin, Yihua Lin, Dongxia Zou, Change Zou, Xiangli Fu, Lan Meng, Fanhua Qian, Weiping
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
BackgroundMediterranean diet (MediDiet) had been reported to be beneficial to human health. However the relationship between diet pattern and outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment was scarcely researched. This study was aimed to explore the correlation between MediDiet pattern of infertile women and their clinical outcomes of IVF cycle...
Hsiao, Chi-Hao Ji, Andrea Tung-Qian Chang, Chih-Cheng Chien, Ming-Hsien Lee, Liang-Ming Ho, Jennifer Hui-Chun
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy
BackgroundTesticular torsion is an urological emergency that may lead to infertility due to ischemic injury. Promptly surgical correction by orchiopexy is the only way to avoid infertility and no effective treatment for restoration of spermatogenesis. We previously reported that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), through local injection upon testicular...
Atkins, Hannah M. Bharadwaj, Manish S. O’Brien Cox, Anderson Furdui, Cristina M. Appt, Susan E. Caudell, David L.
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
BackgroundEndometriosis is the growth of uterine lining (endometrium) outside of the uterus. In other chronic inflammatory diseases, mitochondrial dysfunction is suspected of playing a role in disease pathogenesis. However, little is known about endometriosis mitochondrial function or its effects on tissue metabolism. The objectives of this study w...
Harzif, Achmad Kemal Santawi, Victor Prana Andika Wijaya, Stephanie
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundIn Indonesia infertility affects 10–15% of reproductive-age couples. In addition to medical problem, infertility in Indonesia poses significant social problem. Childlessness is often stigmatized as a failure which victimizes couples, moreover the females. Despite the high prevalence, there is no fertility awareness education which further...
Maroufizadeh, Saman Almasi-Hashiani, Amir Amini, Payam Sepidarkish, Mahdi Omani-Samani, Reza
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BMC Research Notes
ObjectiveInfertility can have a considerable effect on a person’s marital satisfaction. The Quality of Marriage Index (QMI) is a self-report inventory to measure global perceptions of marital satisfaction. The current study examined the reliability and validity of the Persian language version of QMI in a sample of infertile patients.ResultsThe mean...
