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Filter by:Although ectopic pregnancy was considered a leading cause of first-trimester maternal mortalities, current technological improvements allowed early diagnosis and opened a door for applying less invasive approaches. A tubal pregnancy could be managed either expectantly, medically, or surgically. The expectant management of ectopic pregnancy relies on the fact that a considerable proportion of ectopic gestations terminate by spontaneous tubal abortion. This approach is usually kept for stable cases with a small gestational sac and low beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG) serum levels. For hemodynamically unstable patients, higher levels of beta-HCG, and larger gestational sacs, surgery is often considered as the treatment of choice (16). Considering this background, the study aims to analyze the subsequent natural reproductive outcomes of patients that had a previous tubal ectopic pregnancy and were managed either expectantly or surgically. Moreover, it amis to determine the factors that could influence the fertility potential of these patients in each treatment group.
Fallopian tubes participate in the incorporation of gametes and embryos into the endometrial cavity. It also provides an optimal environment for flattening and early embryonic development. Tubal pathologies can cause both primary and secondary infertility. This condition has been associated with overt and subclinical hypothyroidism. However, the effects of hypothyroidism on tubal activity are not fully known. Although a few animal experiment studies on this subject have been published, there is no study on this subject in the literature. Demonstrating that epithelial and smooth muscle cells of rat fallopian tubes express thyroid receptors in animal experiments showed that fallopian tubes are targets for thyroid hormones. Again, in an animal experiment study, it was revealed that thyroid hormones have an important control on glycogen and lipid storage, lipid signaling and lymphocyte infiltration, which have an important role in maintaining the microenvironment in the rat fallopian tubes. This microenvironment is necessary for fertilization, sperm capacitation and gamete development. In another animal experimental study, it was thought that changes in the size of the epithelium of the fallopian tubes and cell metabolism in hypothyroid rabbits may affect oviductal activity and reproductive functions. An ectopic pregnancy is defined as a pregnancy implanted outside of the uterus. Ectopic pregnancy >98% implants in the fallopian tube. The etiology of ectopic pregnancy is unclear, but tubal implantation is probably due to impaired embryo-tubal transport. This is due to changes in the tubal environment. Based on this information, we aim to determine the possible relationship between hypothyroidism and ectopic pregnancy in humans in our study.
Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is estimated to be responsible for approximately 20% of all pregnancy-related mortality and 46% early pregnancy mortality.1 Hemodynamically stable women with EP are frequently managed with methotrexate (MTX) while multiple protocols like fixed multiple doses, single-dose as well as two-dose regimens have been in practice for treating EP, but no consensus exists regarding the optimum dosage regimen.
The utilization of letrozole at a daily dose of 10 mg for medical treatment of ectopic pregnancy considerably has a high success rate without imposing any serious side effects compared to daily 5mg letrozole.
Kisspeptins are a family of neuropeptides that are critical for the puberty initiation and female fertility. The investigators aimed to investigate in this study kisspeptin levels in early pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, and early pregnancy loss.
The study will describe the effectiveness of ovarian stimulation in correlation with female infertility causes in a Lebanese population: a comparative study using 5 protocols of ovulation induction (treatment with "A" gonadotropins alone, "B" short GnRH agonist, "C" multiple-dose GnRH antagonist, "D" long GnRH agonist and "E" combined protocol of GnRH antagonist and agonist) and the outcomes of ICSI. This comparative study will help clinicians to select the relevant protocol of ovarian stimulation related to the female infertility disorders.
Cornual pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy that accounts for 2% to 4% of ectopic pregnancies, with a mortality rate between 2.0% and 2.5%. Traditionally, interstitial pregnancies were treated by laparotomy with cornial resection or hysterectomy. However, nowadays, increasingly interstitial pregnancies are treated by laparoscopic cranial resection. Although this technique can potentially protect the fertility of the patient, it carries a serious risk of bleeding and requires a surgical experience.
According to recent evidences, vitamin D was found to have important roles in female reproductive system, both in physiological and also pathological mechanisms. Since vitamin D is tightly related with calcium metabolism, both molecules were reported to be associated with some pregnancy complications including preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight, preterm delivery, and cesarean section rates. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the vitamin D levels in ectopic pregnancies, which may have clinical importance in the etiology of this disorder.
Traditionally, salpingectomy has been the standard procedure for managing ectopic pregnancy. We would like to evaluate the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic tubal preservation surgery in treating ectopic pregnancies (salpingostomy or salpingotomy) while preserving the fertility outcome of the patients, as well as to identify the factors predicting the presence of persistent ectopic pregnancy after the surgery.
Patients who have doubt for ectopic pregnancy will be enrolled for our study. These patients will be determined with using irregular increased human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG) results and no embryo reported ultrasonography results. Plasma and cervical fluid samples will be taken from these patients and axonemal dynein heavy chain 5 and creatine kinase levels of samples will be compared between patients who have doubt for ectopic pregnancy and patients who have intrauterine pregnancy. Concentration of these proteins in samples will be evaluated. If any difference will be found between groups in favour of ectopic pregnancy, these results might be interpreted as these proteins useful for early detecting of the ectopic pregnancy.