Steven S. Witkin
ORCID: 0000-0002-3502-3929
· 5 papers in corpus
other
2019
There remains a need to differentiate between women with a benign or a malignant adnexal mass prior to surgery. As part of an ongoing evaluation of vaginal fluid compounds as potential tumor biomarkers we evaluated whether vaginal lysophosp…
other
2019
PURPOSE: To identify biomarkers that prospectively predict IVF cycle cancellation. METHODS: In this prospective study, sera were obtained prior to any intervention, from women about to undergo an IVF cycle. The sera were assayed by ELISA f…
observational
2008
PURPOSE: To determine whether the concentration of hyaluronan (HA) in follicular fluid predicts implantation success following embryo transfer. METHODS: Follicular fluids from 170 IVF patients were tested by ELISA for HA concentration. RE…
observational
1997
Objective: Endometriosis is a very common cause of infertility and often an indication for in vitro fertilization with embryo trans- fer (IVF-ET). When patients have severe endometriosis affecting the tubes, infertility is understandable. H…
observational
1996
Proinflammatory cytokines and activated macrophages and T lymphocytes have been detected in peritoneal fluids of women with endometriosis and may impair fertility. Expression of the 60 kDa heat shock protein (hsp60) is one mechanism leading…