Yıldırım Köpük Ş, Özer N, Çekmez Y, Erel Ö, Kıran G. The relationship between serum thiol levels and thiol/disulfide homeostasis in women with tubal ectopic pregnancy.
J Gynecol Obstet Hum Reprod 2021;
50:102175. [PMID:
34089948 DOI:
10.1016/j.jogoh.2021.102175]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to investigate the thiol/disulfide homeostasis in tubal ectopic pregnancies in terms of early diagnosis of the disease.
DESIGN
A prospective case-control study was carried out between June 2017-February 2018 in the Gynaecology Department of Umraniye Medical and Research Hospital.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A total of 42 women with ectopic pregnancy were compared with 44 healthy women who have intrauterine first trimester pregnancies. The thiol/disulfide homeostasis is evaluated with the spectrophotometric measurement method that was recently developed by Erel&Neselioglu.
RESULTS
Disulfide/native thiol and disulfide/total thiol ratios were increased (p = 0.018 and p = 0.023 respectively), while native thiol/total thiol ratios and native thiol levels were decreased in tubal ectopic pregnancy group according to control group (p = 0.023). Between control and tubal ectopic pregnancy groups no differences were measured in disulfide levels (p = 0.350). The area under curve for native thiol and total thiol were 0.937 and 0.927, respectively. The optimum cut off value for native thiol was 379.95 μmol/l with a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 81%. The optimum cut off value for total thiol was 432.5 μmol/l had 92% sensitivity and 79% specificity.
LIMITATIONS
In the study, whether intrauterine pregnancies resulted in miscarriage or delivery can be examined.
CONCLUSION
Increased disulfide/native thiol levels, disulfide/total-thiol ratio and decreased native/total thiol ratio were found to be significantly associated with the presence of tubal ectopic pregnancy which can be useful for the early diagnosis of the disease.
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