Pituitary Origin of Persistently Elevated Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in a Patient with Gonadal Failure

During sympathetic stimulation with a mental stress test, young patients with the classic PCOS phenotype showed lower heart rate variability response versus a healthy control group, after adjustment for age.

Only 48% of LH surges in ovulating women are single peaks of <5 days. The variants are associated with significant differences in follicle size and hormone levels.

The high plasma testosterone levels in swimmers did not have a detectable effect on bone mass acquisition. Among various factors, menstrual disorders may reduce the potentially favorable effect of androgens on bone.

The levels of follicular fluid and serum hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and the expression of c-Met in polycystic ovary syndrome were determined along with the importance of HGF/c-Met signaling in fertilization success.

G-protein-coupled estrogen receptor-30 (GPR30) is highly expressed in uterine leiomyoma tissue and localized in the nuclei of leiomyoma cells; 17b-estradiol increases GPR30 expression in cultured leiomyoma smooth muscle cells.

Progestin-induced heart and neural crest derivatives expressed transcript 2 contributes to fibulin-1 expression in human endometrial stromal cells.

Vitrification of prepubertal mouse ovaries did not affect the methylation profile of Snrpn-DMR or their development and fertility potential.

Oxytocin receptor (OTR) levels in myometrial cells correlate with the severity of dysmenorrhea and uterine contractility in women with adenomyosis, and both trichostatin A and andrographolide dose-dependently inhibit OTR expression.

A live birth was obtained after frozen/thawed ovarian tissue autologous transplantation in a patient with precocious ovarian failure after chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation.

Serum interleukin-19 and -22 are decreased in ovarian endometrioma. They may be involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis.

Women with rectovaginal endometriosis were judged more physically attractive than women with peritoneal or ovarian endometriosis and than women with other benign gynecological conditions.

The high prevalence of maternal hypovitaminosis D in women who are pregnant during winter months in northern latitudes may have detrimental effects on fetal skeletal growth.

Cigarette smoking is not associated with quantitative differences in ciliation or ciliogenesis factor expression in human oviducts, suggesting other pathophysiologic mechanisms underlie the increased risk of ectopic pregnancy in women who smoke.

A scoring system aid in triage of women at risk for ectopic pregnancy validated in a racially, geographically diverse cohort, with comparable test characteristics for viable intrauterine and nonviable pregnancies.

The risk for antiphospholipid syndrome is the same after two, not necessarily consecutive, miscarriages, as for women with three or more miscarriages.

Aberrant expression of proinflammatory, anti-inflammatory, and angiogenic cytokines alters the endometrial milieu, affecting the endometrial development and receptivity during implantation window in women with idiopathic recurrent spontaneous miscarriage.

Endometrin monotherapy provided comparable pregnancy rates (PRs) in fresh autologous and fresh donor oocyte cycles. The addition of P in oil to Endometrin improved PRs in frozen transfer cycles.

Interval transfer of cryopreserved embryos derived from prior in vitro fertilization stimulation with elevated peak estradiol level reduces the risk of adverse obstetric outcomes.

The performance of twin pregnancies after fetal reduction procedure was tested in a prospective cohort study. Our work supports a lack of causative relationship between fetal reduction and pregnancy endpoint.