Shari Mackens
ORCID: 0000-0001-7012-0436
· 12 papers in corpus
meta-analysis
2026
STUDY QUESTION: How do unoperated ovarian endometriomas affect ovarian response during ovarian stimulation cycles? SUMMARY ANSWER: Ovaries affected by unoperated ovarian endometriomas show similar outcomes to unaffected ovaries following c…
observational
2025
RESEARCH QUESTION: Are pregnancies in female same-sex couples at higher risk when using reception of oocytes from partner (ROPA) compared with intrauterine insemination (IUI)? DESIGN: A retrospective, single-centre, matched cohort study wa…
meta-analysis
2025
The aim of this study was to investigate whether gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) pretreatment has a positive effect on pregnancy outcomes in women with adenomyosis who were undergoing a frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle. A …
lab-animal
2024
PURPOSE: To investigate whether the transcriptome profile differs between progesterone-treated infertile and fertile endometrial organoids. METHODS: Endometrial biopsies were obtained from 14 infertile and seven fertile women, after which …
other
2024
The study investigates whether a 3-day pretreatment course with a GnRH antagonist in the early follicular phase has an impact on the number of retrieved COCs in a GnRH antagonist stimulation protocol. This is a retrospective single center c…
observational
2023
It is generally accepted that microorganisms can colonize a non-pathological endometrium. However, in a clinical setting, endometrial samples are always collected by passing through the vaginal-cervical route. As such, the vaginal and cervi…
meta-analysis
2023
BACKGROUND: In IVF/ICSI treatment, the process of embryo implantation is the success rate-limiting step. Endometrial scratching has been suggested to improve this process, but it is unclear if this procedure increases the chance of implanta…
observational
2023
The endometrial microbiota composition may be associated with implantation success. However, a 'core' composition has not yet been defined. This exploratory study analysed the endometrial microbiota by 16S rRNA sequencing (V1-V2 region) of …
rct
2022
PURPOSE: To investigate whether treatment with commercially available ready-to-use A23187 ionophore (GM508-CultActive) improves embryo development outcome in patients with a history of embryo developmental problems. METHODS: This is a uni-…
observational
2022
PURPOSE: Does cell loss (CL) after vitrification and warming (V/W) of day 3 embryos have an impact on live birth rate (LBR) and neonatal outcomes? METHOD: This retrospective analysis includes cleavage stage day 3 embryos vitrified/warmed b…
observational
2020
Background: The need for endocrine monitoring in artificial cycles for frozen embryo transfer (FET) remains unclear and, more specifically, the value of the late-proliferative phase serum estradiol (E2) levels is with conflicting evidence i…
2017