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Intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment in subfertility
Author(s) :
Nuojua-Huttunen, Sinikka
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The effectiveness of intrauterine insemination (IUI) combined with controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) in the treatment of subfertility was investigated in the present study. For this purpose the prognostic factors associated with success of clomiphene citrate (CC)/human menopausal g...
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Insulin resistance in polycystic ovary syndrome
Author(s) :
Morin-Papunen, Laure
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The polycystic ovary syndrome, described first as the association
of bilateral polycystic ovaries and amenorrhoea, oligomenorrhoea,
hirsutism and obesity, was later shown to be a complex metabolic syndrome.
The first purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence
of hyperinsulina...
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Preterm birth and preterm infant : a clinical study on certain etiological and diagnostic factors, and the outcome of infants
Author(s) :
Kurkinen-Räty, Merja
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether bacterial vaginosis (BV) diagnosed in early pregnancy and
treated with vaginal clindamycin affects pregnancy outcome, and to investigate the predictive value of interleukins-6
(IL-6) and -8 (IL-8), and insulin-like growth factor-bindin...
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Endocrine and metabolic changes in women with polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome
Author(s) :
Koivunen, Riitta
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The prevalence of the isolated ultrasonographic finding of polycystic
ovaries (PCO) in the Finnish population and among women with a history of
gestational diabetes (GDM) and changes in the present carbohydrate metabolism
were investigated in the present study. One aim of this study was...
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Care and outcome of Finnish diabetic pregnancy
Author(s) :
Vääräsmäki, Marja
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment, course and outcome of pregnancy in Finland using two cohorts of diabetic women. The clinical
cohort
consisted of data from all 210 women with Type 1 diabetes and their 296 pregnancies managed between 1986 and 1995 in the two northernmo...
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Regulation of apoptosis in the female reproductive system
Author(s) :
Vaskivuo, Tommi
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Apoptosis is a genetically programmed mechanism for a multicellular organism to remove cells that are unnecessary, or potentially harmful. The female reproductive system is characterised by a high rate of cellular proliferation. At the same time, apoptosis is also abundant during the norma...
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Placental insufficiency and fetal heart: Doppler ultrasonographic and biochemical markers of fetal cardiac dysfunction
Author(s) :
Mäkikallio, Kaarin
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The first aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between Doppler ultrasonographic parameters and biochemical markers of human fetal cardiac dysfunction and myocardial cell damage in pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency and/or fetal growth restriction. Our secon...
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Type I and type III collagen metabolites and peritoneal cells in predicting the clinical outcome of epithelial ovarian cancer patients
Author(s) :
Simojoki, Marja
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Malignant tissue growth induces marked biochemical and structural changes in the extracellular matrix of the tumour and its surrounding tissues. In the present study, we evaluated the prognostic value of the serum concentration of the markers of synthesis of type I collagen (PICP, PINP) an...
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First trimester screening for Down syndrome
Author(s) :
Niemimaa, Marko
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of the first trimester screening for Down syndrome (DS) in an unselected low-risk Finnish population. The study involved 4,617 women who attended screening between the 8th and 14th weeks of pregnancy in 1998-2000. They gave a blood ...
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Age-related androgen secretion in healthy women and in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Author(s) :
Piltonen, Terhi
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The number of ovarian follicles declines with age resulting in a significant decrease of fertility by the age of 40. However, the age when follicle loss starts to affect ovarian endocrine function is not well recognized. The purpose of the present study was to investigate age-related ovari...
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