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Deenadayal M, Günther V, Alkatout I, Freytag D, Deenadayal-Mettler A, Deenadayal Tolani A, Sinha R, Mettler L. Critical Role of 3D ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of Robert's uterus: a single-centre case series and a review. Facts Views Vis Obgyn 2021; 13:41-49. [PMID: 33889860 PMCID: PMC8051191 DOI: 10.52054/fvvo.13.1.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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A septate uterus with a non-communicating hemicavity was first described by Robert in 1969/70 as a specific malformation of the uterus. The condition is commonly associated with a blind uterine hemicavity, unilateral haematometra, a contralateral unicornuate uterine cavity and a normal external uterine fundus. The main symptoms are repetitive attacks of pain at four-weekly intervals around menarche, repeated dysmenorrhea, recurrent pregnancy loss and infertility. In this report, we review the disease, its diagnosis and treatment, and describe five cases of Robert's uterus. Three dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging was performed by the transvaginal route in four cases. In the fifth case of a 13-year-old girl, we avoided the vaginal route and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3D transrectal US yielded the correct diagnosis. The following treatment procedures were undertaken: laparoscopic endometrectomy, hysteroscopic septum resection, laparoscopic uterine hemicavity resection and total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). The diagnosis and optimum treatment of Robert's uterus remains difficult for clinicians because of its rarity. A detailed and careful assessment by 3D US should be performed, followed by hysteroscopy in combination with laparoscopy, to confirm the diagnosis.
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- M Deenadayal
- Mamata Fertility Hospital, 9-1-192, St Marys Rd, Telangana 500003, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Mamata Fertility Hospital, 9-1-192, St Marys Rd, Telangana 500003, Hyderabad, India
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- Apollo Health City, Gynaecology, Road No 72, Hyderabad, Telangana 500033, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Sudhakar DVS, Nizamuddin S, Manisha G, Devi JR, Gupta NJ, Chakravarthy BN, Deenadayal M, Singh L, Thangaraj K. NR5A1 mutations are not associated with male infertility in Indian men. Andrologia 2017; 50. [PMID: 29265478 DOI: 10.1111/and.12931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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NR5A1 or steroidogenic factor 1 (SF1) is an autosomal gene, which encodes a protein that is a member of nuclear receptor family. NR5A1 regulates the transcription of numerous genes that are expressed in hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and adrenal cortex which in turn, coordinate the gonadal development, steroidogenesis and sex differentiation. Several mutations in NR5A1 have been reported to cause gonadal dysgenesis with adrenal insufficiency in individuals with 46,XY karyotype. However, studies in the past few years have shown that NR5A1 mutations can also contribute to primary ovarian insufficiency and impaired spermatogenesis. As there is no genetic study on NR5A1 in Indian infertile men, we have sequenced the entire coding region (exons 2-7) of NR5A1 in 502 infertile men of which, 414 were non-obstructive azoospermic and 88 severe oligozoospermic, along with 427 ethnically matched fertile controls. Interestingly, none of the mutations reported to be associated with male infertility were found in our study, except one polymorphism, rs1110061. However, it was not significantly different between infertile and fertile groups (p = .76). In addition, we have identified six intronic variants; but none of them was significantly associated with male infertility.
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- D V S Sudhakar
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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- Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India
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- Infertility Institute and Research Center, Secunderabad, India
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- Genome Foundation, Hyderabad, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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Khattri A, Reddy VP, Pandey RK, Sudhakar DVS, Gupta NJ, Chakravarty BN, Deenadayal M, Singh L, Thangaraj K. Novel mutations in calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CAMK4) gene in infertile men. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 35:810-818. [PMID: 22897820 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2012.01302.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CAMK4) is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase, which plays an important role in the spermatogenesis by phosphorylating protamines. It has been shown to be involved in the regulation of human sperm motility. Moreover, the Camk4 knockout mice were infertile because of severely reduced sperm count and morphological abnormalities. As no study is available on the association of this gene with male infertility, we analysed all the exons of CAMK4 gene in ethnically matched 283 infertile and 268 fertile Indian men. We identified twenty nucleotide substitutions, of which twelve were novel. Of these novel variants, eight were exclusively detected in infertile men. Moreover, two infertile men-specific mutations were non-synonymous replacing amino acids at the highly conserved region. In silico analysis predicted both of these mutations as 'deleterious'. In addition to nucleotide substitutions, we identified five novel insertion-deletion mutations; of these, g.150264_66delGCG was exclusively found in two oligoasthenoteratozoospermic men. In silico analysis of infertile men exclusive mutations predicted that they can alter/diminish the potential binding sites of splicing factors, which may affect the mRNA splicing and protein translation. Our study suggests that the mutations in CAMK4 may lead to abnormal semen parameters.
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- A Khattri
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Khattri A, Pandey RK, Gupta NJ, Chakravarty B, Deenadayal M, Singh L, Thangaraj K. APOB Gene Signal Peptide Deletion Polymorphism Is Not Associated With Infertility in Indian Men. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 30:734-8. [DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.109.007898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Khattri A, Pandey RK, Gupta NJ, Chakravarty B, Deenadayal M, Singh L, Thangaraj K. Estrogen receptor beta gene mutations in Indian infertile men. Mol Hum Reprod 2009; 15:513-20. [PMID: 19509112 DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gap044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Recent studies suggest that estrogens play an important role in male fertility. Estrogen signaling is mediated by Estrogen Receptors (ERalpha and ERbeta). Association of ERbeta with male infertility has not been analyzed to date except for genotyping of known polymorphisms in two different studies, which yielded controversial interpretation. Hence, we performed sequencing of all the exons and untranslated regions of ERbeta gene in 300 infertile and 255 fertile control Indian men. We identified eight novel mutations and four known single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Of the eight novel mutations, four were non-synonymous, of which one was detected only in infertile men, whereas the other three mutations were detected only in fertile men. Using different bioinformatics tools, we predicted that non-synonymous mutations were benign and they neither altered the structure nor the function of the protein. Among synonymous novel mutations, one was detected in both fertile and infertile men, two were exclusive to infertile men and one was exclusive to fertile men. None of the known SNPs or novel mutations showed statistically significant difference between infertile and fertile men. Moreover, infertile men having ERbeta mutations had normal reproductive tract and serum hormone levels. Our results suggest that the SNPs and mutations in ERbeta gene are not a common cause of spermatogenesis failure in Indian men, although mutations specifically found in infertile men can affect transcription, translation or have synergic effect with other variants in causing infertility.
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- A Khattri
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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Kandukuri L, Suryanarayana V, Deenadayal M, Singh L. EVALUATION OF CRITICAL GENETIC VARIATION IN IDIOPATHIC RECURRENT MISCARRIAGES AMONG SOUTH INDIAN WOMEN-A GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC APPROACH. Maturitas 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0378-5122(09)70533-x] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Suryavathi V, Khattri A, Gopal K, Rani DS, Panneerdoss S, Gupta NJ, Chakravarty B, Deenadayal M, Singh L, Thangaraj K. Novel Variants in UBE2B Gene and Idiopathic Male Infertility. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 29:564-71. [DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.004580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Dixit H, Rao KL, Padmalatha V, Kanakavalli M, Deenadayal M, Gupta N, Chakravarty BN, Singh L. Expansion of the germline analysis for the INHA gene in Indian women with ovarian failure. Hum Reprod 2006; 21:1643-4. [PMID: 16723387 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dixit H, Rao KL, Padmalatha VV, Kanakavalli M, Deenadayal M, Gupta N, Chakrabarty BN, Singh L. Mutational analysis of the betaglycan gene-coding region in susceptibility for ovarian failure. Hum Reprod 2006; 21:2041-6. [PMID: 16613887 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Elevation of FSH is frequently a consequence of impaired ovarian follicle growth. Down-regulation of the FSH levels by inhibins is mediated through its receptor betaglycan in the gonadotrophs. Understanding of germline status of the betaglycan gene (TGFBR3) is essential for ovarian failure pathophysiology. METHODS Sequence analysis was performed for the coding region of TGFBR3 gene in a cohort of 196 ovarian failure cases that include 133 premature ovarian failure (POF) cases, 63 primary amenorrhoea (PA) cases compared with 200 controls. RESULTS Forty-six variants including six novel exonic variants and 16 novel intronic variants were revealed. Two variants were missense: (i) p.Iso184Val in a control and (ii) p.Pro775Ser in a POF case. Genotypic distribution of three variants (c.382-81C>T, c.382-77T>C and c.1200G>A) was significantly different in the patients as compared with the controls. Five variants c.382-81C>T, c.382-77T>C, c.566-216G>A, c.1200G>A and c.2022T>C were chosen for haplotyping. The CCAAT haplotype was significantly higher in the patient population as compared with the controls (P = 0.00007). CONCLUSION This study establishes the first mutational report of the TGFBR3 gene in correlation with ovarian failure. Significant diversity of genotype distribution and haplotype analysis suggested susceptibility of the TGFBR3 gene for ovarian failure aetiology.
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- H Dixit
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Rao L, Babu A, Murthy K, Deenadayal M, Singh L. 13p and Yq Homology Have Anything To Do With Male Infertility Status: A Novel Familial Inheritance of 13p Deletion. Fertil Steril 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.07.576] [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: 10/25/2022]
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Suryanarayana V, Rao L, Murthy K, Padmalatha V, Deenadayal M, Singh L. Evaluation of Critical Genetic Variations in Idiopathic Recurrent Miscarriages Among South Indian Women- A Genomic and Proteomic Approach. Fertil Steril 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.07.1082] [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: 11/29/2022]
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