background: while traditional semen parameters are of significant clinical value, total fertilization failure in ivf cycles is not uncommon. sperm function testing such as; hamster egg penetration test has severed limitations as a clinical test. the aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of semen parameters by using of intracellular calcium [ca2+]i increase in response to proges...

Background: Some authors detected significantly higher IL-18 levels in serum, peritoneal, and pleural fluids of patients with severe OHSS as compared with control groups and suggest a role of IL- 18 as a marker of OHSS. Lower levels of IL-18 have been found to characterize unexplained infertility. In this study, we analyzed the importance of IL-18 levels in serum and follicle fluid in response ...

Background: Assessment of AMH cut-off levels in serum and in follicle fluid (FF) for patients with (group 2, n=34) and without (group1, n= 96) endocrinological risk factors, such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is clinically useful in optimising the treatment protocol. Materials and Methods: AMH was analysed in serum and FF of 130 infertile pati...

Abstract Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MpBC) is a rare special histologic subtype of characterized by the presence squamous and/or mesenchymal differentiation. Most MpBCs are triple-negative phenotype and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) frequently utilized in patients with MpBC. The aim this study was to evaluate response NAC retrospective cohort MpBCs. We identified 44 MpBC treated at our cente...