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Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (ovarian + hyperstimulation_syndrome)
Selected AbstractsInfertile couples' experience of family stress while women are hospitalized for Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome during infertility treatmentJOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 4 2008Shiu-Neng Chang MS Aims and objectives., The aim of this study was to explore the essential structure of family stress among hospitalized women receiving infertility treatment with Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome. Background., When hospitalization is necessary for infertile women with Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome, they face health-illness transition stress and their families are traumatized by the pressure of hospitalization. Most literature on infertility treatment has dealt with the infertile women's physio-psychological reactions, the impact on the couples' relationships and the influence of social support on infertile couples. Design., A descriptive phenomenological design consistent with Husserl's philosophy. Methods., Ten married couples from a Taipei medical centre participated in the study. All the couples were receiving infertility treatment because the female partners were suffering from moderate or severe Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome and this required hospitalized. An open in-depth interview technique encouraged parents to reflect on their experience, which raised their feelings to a conscious level. Data were analysed using Colaizzi's approach. Results., This study explored infertile women's experiences from the couples' perspectives and the results identify the overall stresses that the family face. Five themes emerged from the study, namely, the stress of ,carrying on the ancestral line', the psychological reactions of the couple, a disordering of family life, reorganization of family life and external family support. Conclusions., The results demonstrate that the experience of family stress involves impacts that range across the domains of individual, marital, family and social interactions and there is a need to cope with these when the wife is hospitalized for moderate to severe Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome. Relevance to clinical practice., The findings indicated that nurses should provide infertile couples with family-centred perspectives that are related to Chinese cultural family values. Nurses should supply information on infertility treatment and assist couples to cope with their personal and family stress. [source] Interleukin-18 is High in the Serum of IVF Pregnancies with Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome,AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY, Issue 5 2004Guy Gutman Problem:, The presence of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in serum and pre-ovulatory follicular fluid (FF) and its possible correlation to in-vitro fertilization/embryo transfer (IVF/ET) outcome and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) development. Method of study:, A prospective study was carried out. Assays for serum and pooled pre-ovulatory FF levels of IL-18 were performed on 30 patients who underwent oocyte retrieval for IVF/ET. Results:, Mean serum and FF levels of IL-18 were 370.4 ± 224 and 228.9 ± 208 pg/mL, respectively (r = 0.77, P < 0.0001). Levels of FF IL-18 were comparable between the two ovaries (right = 221 ± 166.8 pg/mL, left = 237 ± 171.9 pg/mL; r = 0.7550, P = 0.49). A positive correlation was found between IL-18 FF levels and number of retrieved oocytes (r = 0.45; P = 0.019). In three patients (10%) who developed OHSS, the mean serum level of IL-18 at day of ovum pickup was significantly higher compared with patients without OHSS (620 ± 196 pg/mL versus 345 ± 251 pg/mL, respectively, P = 0.04). Conclusions:, Both pre-ovulatory FF and serum levels of IL-18 correlate with the number of retrieved oocytes. The serum IL-18 level at day of ovum pickup may predict consequent development of OHSS. Further investigations are warranted to determine the role of IL-18 in the folliculogenesis and OHSS pathogenesis. [source] Angiogenesis in the female reproductive organs: pathological implicationsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY, Issue 4 2002Lawrence P. Reynolds Summary. The female reproductive organs (ovary, uterus, and placenta) are some of the few adult tissues that exhibit regular intervals of rapid growth. They also are highly vascular and have high rates of blood flow. Angiogenesis, or vascular growth, is therefore an important component of the growth and function of these tissues. As with many other tissues, vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) appear to be major angiogenic factors in the female reproductive organs. A variety of pathologies of the female reproductive organs are associated with disturbances of the angiogenic process, including dysfunctional uterine bleeding, endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma, endometriosis, failed implantation and subnormal foetal growth, myometrial fibroids (uterine leiomyomas) and adenomyosis, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, ovarian carcinoma, and polycystic ovary syndrome. These pathologies are also associated with altered expression of VEGFs and/or FGFs. In the near future, angiogenic or antiangiogenic compounds may prove to be effective therapeutic agents for treating these pathologies. In addition, monitoring of angiogenesis or angiogenic factor expression may provide a means of assessing the efficacy of these therapies. [source] Ovarian follicular development stimulated by leuprorelin acetate plus human menopausal gonadotropin in chimpanzeesJOURNAL OF MEDICAL PRIMATOLOGY, Issue 2 2005Nobuhiko Yoshimoto Abstract:, We attempted ovarian stimulation using gonadotropins in 14 chimpanzees. Subjects were given a single administration of leuprorelin acetate, followed by repeated administration of human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) for 16,21 days. During the dosing period, the ovarian follicle diameter and count were measured by transvaginal ultrasonography. The hormone administration induced the development of multiple follicles, and multiple oocytes were subsequently retrieved. However, the follicle count was decreased, suggesting atresia, in some subjects. Statistically, the final follicle diameter was dependent on the dosing duration and the hMG dose in the late stage, while the maximum follicle count during hMG administration was dependent on age and the hMG dose in the early stage. Five subjects showed mild ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS)-like symptoms with a high serum estradiol (E2) concentration. These results suggest that leuprorelin acetate plus hMG administration successfully stimulates the development of multiple ovarian follicles for oocyte retrieval and that the serum E2 concentration is predictive of OHSS-like symptoms in chimpanzees. [source] New frontiers of assisted reproductive technology (Chien Tien Hsu Memorial Lecture 2007)JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY RESEARCH (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2009P. C. Ho Abstract Many significant advances have been made in assisted reproductive technology since the birth of the first baby conceived with in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. The development of recombinant gonadotropins and gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonists helps to simplify the ovarian stimulation. Excessive ovarian stimulation should be avoided because of the risks of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and reduction in endometrial receptivity. Maturation of oocytes in vitro has been developed in some centers. It is still uncertain whether techniques such as assisted hatching, blastocyst transfer and pre-implantation aneuploidy screening can improve the live birth rates in assisted reproduction. The introduction of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for selection of human lymphocyte antigens (HLA) compatible embryos for treatment of siblings has raised ethical concerns. There is a higher risk of obstetric complications and congenital abnormalities even in singleton pregnancies achieved with assisted reproduction. Because of the risks of multiple pregnancies, elective single embryo transfer is increasingly used in good-prognosis patients. With a good freezing program, the cumulative pregnancy rate (including the pregnancies from subsequent replacement of frozen-thawed embryos) is not adversely affected. Improvement in cryopreservation techniques has made it possible to cryopreserve slices of ovarian tissue or oocytes, thus helping women who have to receive sterilizing forms of anti-cancer treatment to preserve their fertility. It is important that the development of the new techniques should be based on good scientific evidence. Ethical, legal and social implications should also be considered before the introduction of new techniques. [source] Improving in vitro Maturation of Oocytes in the Human Taking Lessons from Experiences in Animal SpeciesREPRODUCTION IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, Issue 1 2001J Smitz One to three per cent of infertile women develop severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome after superovulation for assisted reproduction treatment (ART). This severe complication can be avoided when oocytes are obtained at an immature stage (germinal vesicle stage) out of small or medium-sized follicles. This hypothesis has been tested in several infertile women, but clinical pregnancies are disappointlingly low. This new approach in ART is still at an experimental phase and this treatment has still to be improved before routine clinical application. Experimental work in animals and humans suggest a beneficial effect in providing a short preliminary pretreatment with follicle-stimulating hormone to select for a developing cohort of follicles. The aspiration of oocyte cumulus complexes is carried out with a short needle applying reduced aspiration pressure. A crucial point is to provide the appropriate culture environment for the immature oocytes. An optimal cumulus-enclosed human oocyte culture system needs to be defined. The composition of the culture medium could be suggested by in vitro work carried out in animal models. As developmental competence is established during the latest phases of oocyte growth and is dependent on the storage of RNA, a prolonged in vitro maturation period (before inducing nuclear maturation) could provide the necessary transcriptional and translational changes. The conditions to achieve this improved cytoplasmic maturation by prolonging the in vitro culture remain to be defined. More objective noninvasive parameters for oocyte maturity are also needed to pursue research in this field. [source] Interleukin-18 is High in the Serum of IVF Pregnancies with Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome,AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY, Issue 5 2004Guy Gutman Problem:, The presence of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in serum and pre-ovulatory follicular fluid (FF) and its possible correlation to in-vitro fertilization/embryo transfer (IVF/ET) outcome and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) development. Method of study:, A prospective study was carried out. Assays for serum and pooled pre-ovulatory FF levels of IL-18 were performed on 30 patients who underwent oocyte retrieval for IVF/ET. Results:, Mean serum and FF levels of IL-18 were 370.4 ± 224 and 228.9 ± 208 pg/mL, respectively (r = 0.77, P < 0.0001). Levels of FF IL-18 were comparable between the two ovaries (right = 221 ± 166.8 pg/mL, left = 237 ± 171.9 pg/mL; r = 0.7550, P = 0.49). A positive correlation was found between IL-18 FF levels and number of retrieved oocytes (r = 0.45; P = 0.019). In three patients (10%) who developed OHSS, the mean serum level of IL-18 at day of ovum pickup was significantly higher compared with patients without OHSS (620 ± 196 pg/mL versus 345 ± 251 pg/mL, respectively, P = 0.04). Conclusions:, Both pre-ovulatory FF and serum levels of IL-18 correlate with the number of retrieved oocytes. The serum IL-18 level at day of ovum pickup may predict consequent development of OHSS. Further investigations are warranted to determine the role of IL-18 in the folliculogenesis and OHSS pathogenesis. [source] Ischaemic stroke associated with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and factor V Leiden mutationAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 3 2004Canan TOGAY-ISIKAY No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||