AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Spontaneous ovhlation after Ovary-to-Forearm transplant. (Menstruation Followed Ovulation).
ORLANDO, FLA. -- An ovary that had been transplanted into a woman's forearm has undergone spontaneous ovulation followed by menstruation for approximately 10 months, Dr. Kutluk Oktay reported.
"Ovarian transplant to the forearm seems to be clinically useful to preserve ovarian function in patients facing radical surgery or cancer treatment," Dr. Oktay said at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
This is the second ovarian transplant case reported by Dr. Oktay and his associates in which ovarian function resumed after the procedure. However, the first case required ovulation induction to get an oocyte for in vitro fertilization. In this case spontaneous ovulation and menstruation were observed, said Dr. Oktay of Cornell University, New York.
The 37-year-old patient has not attempted to get pregnant.
"The procedure was performed after the woman had undergone an oophorectomy of her remaining ovary because of a benign serous cyst.
Healthy tissue was harvested from the ovary, sliced into ...
- Preserving Ovarian Function in Cancer Survivors.(Clinical report)
- Newspaper article from: Clinical Oncology Alert July 1, 2003 700+ words
Preserving Ovarian Function in Cancer Survivors...approach for reconstituting ovarian function in selected patients...the preservation of ovarian function after cancer therapy...clinical application. Dr. Ershler is UNOVA Fairfax...
- Serum dioxin concentrations and quality of ovarian function in women of...
- Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives Warner, Marcella Eskenazi, Brenda Olive, David L. Samuels, Steven Quick-Miles, Sunita Vercellini, Paolo Gerthoux, Pier Mario Needham, Larry Patterson, Donald G., Jr. Mocarelli, Paolo March 1, 2007 700+ words
...been associated with alterations in ovarian function and hormones in animals, it has not...collected near the time of explosion and ovarian function (ovarian cysts, ovarian follicles...TCDD exposure was associated with ovarian function 20 years later in women exposed to...
- Ovarian function after multi-agent chemotherapy. (News: clinical digest: a...
- Magazine article from: Nursing Standard June 25, 2003 700+ words
Return of ovarian function following chemotherapy for osteosarcoma...after treatment. To evaluate ovarian function after intensive multi-agent...discontinuation of chemotherapy, ovarian function had deteriorated severely and...
- Ovarian function post-chemotherapy following ovarian cryopreservation and...
- Magazine article from: Reproductive Health Matters November 1, 2006 700+ words
Ovarian function was assessed after treatment of...menstruated and ten had seemingly normal ovarian function and normal oestradiol levels. All...transplanted ovarian tissue regained ovarian function as confirmed by return of menses...
- Long-term ovarian function maintained in woman following autologous transplant.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week July 19, 2004 700+ words
...maintaining a woman's long-term ovarian function following the transplantation of her...measuring of hormones showed that ovarian function started 3 months after this transplant...March 2003. "This time we saw normal ovarian function return after only 1 month and it continues...
- Seasonal changes in ovarian function.(Brief article)
- Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review June 22, 2006 700+ words
...human female is quite strenuous, ovarian function is probably dependent on various factors...women correlated with measures of ovarian function. The average level of energy expended...variables did not appear to influence ovarian function. Thus, work-related energy expenditure...
- High-dose chemotherapy is associated with altered ovarian function
- Magazine article from: Reactions Weekly Anonymous June 28, 2008 700+ words
...chemotherapy is associated with altered ovarian function, according to results of a study...Meeting of the Endocrine Society. Ovarian function was analysed in 29 women aged between...Reference] Frey MA, et al. Ovarian function after high-dose chemotherapy without...
- Publication No. WO/2009/101789 Published on Aug. 20, Assigned to Morinaga Milk...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 27, 2009 700+ words
...both of Japan, have developed an ovarian function-improving agent. The patent has...explains an "agent for improving the ovarian function, which can prevent the development of an ovarian function disorder by an anti-cancer chemical...
Source: HighBeam Research, Spontaneous ovhlation after Ovary-to-Forearm transplant....