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Gil MM, Rodríguez-Fernández M, Elger T, Akolekar R, Syngelaki A, De Paco Matallana C, Molina FS, Gallardo Arocena M, Chaveeva P, Persico N, Accurti V, Kagan KO, Prodan N, Cruz J, Nicolaides KH. Risk of fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling in twin pregnancy derived from propensity score matching analysis. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2022; 59:162-168. [PMID: 34845786 DOI: 10.1002/uog.24826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To estimate the risk of fetal loss associated with chorionic villus sampling (CVS) in twin pregnancy, using propensity score analysis. METHODS This was a multicenter cohort study of women with twin pregnancy undergoing ultrasound examination at 11-13 weeks' gestation, performed in eight fetal medicine units in which the leadership were trained at the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine in London, UK, and in which the protocols for screening, invasive testing and pregnancy management are similar. The risk of death of at least one fetus was compared between pregnancies that had and those that did not have CVS, after propensity score matching (1:1 ratio). This procedure created two comparable groups by balancing the maternal and pregnancy characteristics that lead to CVS being performed, similar to how randomization operates in a randomized clinical trial. RESULTS The study population of 8581 twin pregnancies included 445 that had CVS. Death of one or two fetuses at any stage during pregnancy occurred in 11.5% (51/445) of pregnancies in the CVS group and in 6.3% (515/8136) in the non-CVS group (P < 0.001). The propensity score algorithm matched 258 cases that had CVS with 258 non-CVS cases; there was at least one fetal loss in 29 (11.2%) cases in the CVS group and in 35 (13.6%) cases in the matched non-CVS group (odds ratio (OR), 0.81; 95% CI, 0.48-1.35; P = 0.415). However, there was a significant interaction between the risk of fetal loss after CVS and the background risk of fetal loss; when the background risk was higher, the risk of fetal loss after CVS decreased (OR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.23-0.90), while, in pregnancies with a lower background risk of fetal loss, the risk of fetal loss after CVS increased (OR, 2.45; 95% CI, 0.95-7.13). The effects were statistically significantly different (P-value of the interaction = 0.005). For a pregnancy in which the background risk of fetal loss was about 6% (the same as in our non-CVS population), there was no change in the risk of fetal loss after CVS, but, when the background risk was more than 6%, the posterior risk was paradoxically reduced, and when the background risk was less than 6%, the posterior risk increased exponentially; for example, if the background risk of fetal loss was 2.0%, the relative risk was 2.8 and the posterior risk was 5.6%. CONCLUSION In twin pregnancy, after accounting for the risk factors that lead to both CVS and spontaneous fetal loss and confining the analysis to pregnancies at lower prior risk, CVS seems to increase the risk of fetal loss by about 3.5% above the patient's background risk. © 2021 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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- M M Gil
- Hospital Universitario de Torrejón and School of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
- Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Hospital Universitario de Torrejón and School of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
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- Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, UK
- Institute of Medical Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Chatham, UK
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- Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Science and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Science and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- University Women's Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
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- University Women's Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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Rodríguez-Fernández M, Yan X, Collados JF, White PB, Harutyunyan SR. Lewis Acid Enabled Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral β-Substituted Amides. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:14224-14231. [PMID: 28960071 PMCID: PMC5639465 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Here we report that readily available
silyl- and boron-based Lewis
acids in combination with chiral copper catalysts are able to overcome
the reactivity issues of unactivated enamides, known as the least
reactive carboxylic acid derivatives, toward alkylation with organomagnesium
reagents. Allowing unequaled chemo-reactivity and stereocontrol in
catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition to enamides, the method is
distinguished by its unprecedented reaction scope, allowing even the
most challenging and synthetically important methylations to be accomplished
with good yields and excellent enantioselectivities. This catalytic
protocol tolerates a broad temperature range (−78 °C to
ambient) and scale up (10 g), while the chiral catalyst can be reused
without affecting overall efficiency. Mechanistic studies revealed
the fate of the Lewis acid in each elementary step of the copper-catalyzed
conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to enamides, allowing us to
identify the most likely catalytic cycle of the reaction.
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- Mamen Rodríguez-Fernández
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University , Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Alonso F, Yus M, Rodríguez-Fernández M, Sánchez D. Ultrasound-Promoted Formation of Isopentenyl Alcohol Dianion: Straightforward Synthesis of Perhydrofuro[2,3-b]furans. SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART 2011. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pose-Reino A, Rodríguez-Fernández M, López-Barreiro L, Coleman IC, Estévez-Nuñez JC, Méndez-Naya I. Diagnostic criteria of white coat hypertension (WCH): consequences for the implications of WCH for target organs. Blood Press 2003; 11:144-50. [PMID: 12126260 DOI: 10.1080/080370502760050377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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In a sample comprising 51 normotensive subjects and 51 subjects with in-clinic arterial hypertension [blood pressures (BPs) > or = 140/90 mmHg), we investigated the prevalence of target organ damage [left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and retinal vasculopathy] in white coat hypertension (WCH) groups defined using: (a) the "optimal ambulatory BP" criterion of the Seventh International Consensus Conference (in-clinic BPs >140/90 mmHg, daytime mean BPs < 130/80 mmHg) and (b) the "normal ambulatory BP" criterion proposed in 1997 by Verdecchia and co-workers (in-clinic BPs >140/ 90 mmHg, daytime mean BPs < 135/85 mmHg), and we compared the results with those obtained for the normotensive group and for a WCH group defined as in a 1996 study of the same data. We found that the newer criteria did not alter the conclusions reached in 1996: namely, that WCH constitutes a state of risk intermediate between normotension and sustained hypertension, which demands in-depth evaluation and active monitoring, if not immediate therapy. We also found that when the WCH group was defined as those patients with in-clinic BPs > or = 140/90 mmHg and 24-h mean BPs < 121/78 mmHg, the prevalence of target organ damage was similar to that found in the control group. We conclude that if WCH status is to imply absence of elevated risk of target organ damage, then the ambulatory BP threshold defining WCH should be lower than the upper limit of ambulatory BPs among subjects who are normotensive in the clinic. The desirability of predicting target organ damage in both hypertensive and normotensive subjects using criteria combining in-clinic BPs, daytime mean ambulatory BPs and night-time mean ambulatory BPs is suggested.
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- A Pose-Reino
- Internal Medicine and Cardiology Service, Hospital de Conxo, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Spain.
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Marco-Contelles J, Rodríguez-Fernández M. Free-Radical Cyclizations onto Differently Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles Installed in Sugar Templates. J Org Chem 2001; 66:3717-25. [PMID: 11374990 DOI: 10.1021/jo001550i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The synthesis and manipulation of differently substituted 1,2,3-triazoles (7-11 and 12-16) installed in sugar templates gave compounds 29-34 and 44-50, after reaction with tributyltin hydride or tris(trimethylsilyl)silane. Following standard procedures compound 44 was transformed into piperidinose derivative 54. These compounds are chiral, useful building blocks for the synthesis of glycosidase inhibitors of the fused-azole piperidinose type.
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- J Marco-Contelles
- Laboratorio de Radicales Libres, IQOG (CSIC), C/ Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006-Madrid, Spain.
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Linares-Palomino J, Gutiérrez-Fernández J, López-Espada C, Ros-Díe E, Moreno-Escobar J, Pérez T, Rodríguez-Fernández M, Maroto-Vela MC. Chlamydia pneumoniae y enfermedad cerebrovascular. Angiología 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3170(01)74680-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Luzardo-Alvarez A, Rodríguez-Fernández M, Blanco-Méndez J, Guy RH, Delgado-Charro MB. Iontophoretic permselectivity of mammalian skin: characterization of hairless mouse and porcine membrane models. Pharm Res 1998; 15:984-7. [PMID: 9688048 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011909623019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the transport number of Na+, and the isoelectric point, of two skin membranes frequently used for iontophoretic in vitro research. METHODS Na+ transport numbers were determined by the Hittorf method or by the measurement of membrane potential. The skin isoelectric point was deduced from the electroosmosis of mannitol (a polar non-electrolyte) as a function of pH. RESULTS The Na+ transport number across porcine skin, like that for hairless mouse, indicated a modest cation permselectivity. Consistent with this observation, the isoelectric points of porcine and hairless mouse skin were determined to be in the ranges of 3.5-3.75 and 4.5-4.6, respectively. That is, at physiological pH, both of these model membranes supports a net negative charge. CONCLUSIONS The permselective properties of porcine and hairless mouse skin are similar (but with the porcine membrane having apparently fewer basic or more weakly-acidic groups than that of the mouse) and consistent with the characteristics, which have been deduced elsewhere, of human skin.
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- A Luzardo-Alvarez
- Departamento de Farmacia e Tecnoloxía Farmacéutica, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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