Diphereline

BACKGROUND: Diphereline is a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone agonist commonly used in patients with breast cancer. This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of one-month and three-month Microrelin injections produced by Homa Pharmed Company with three-month Diphereline injections manufactured by IPSEN, France. METHODS: The study was a non-inferiority randomized clinical trial conducted between 2019 and 2023 on premenopausal women candidates for endocrine therapy...

BACKGROUND: Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) can help to predict the chemotherapy response in breast cancer with promising results. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between the miR-199a, miR-663a, and miR-663b expression and chemotherapy response in metastatic breast cancer patients. METHODS: This study is a case-control study performed at Yasuj University of Medical Sciences (2018-2021). The expression levels of miR-663a, miR-663b, and miR-199a in the serum of 25 patients with metastatic breast cancer versus 15 healthy individuals were determined by the real-time polymerase chain reaction method...

Objective: Due to high levels of serum gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), perimenopausal or menopausal women, girls with central precocious puberty, women of polycystic ovary syndrome, and females receiving long-term GnRH agonist (GnRHa) treatment are at substantially higher risk of developing obesity. However, it remains poorly understood how GnRH affects body weight. Here, we explored whether the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRHR) was expressed in adipocytes and how GnRHR mediated lipid accumulation and the development of obesity...

INTRODUCTION: The optimal management of recurrent ovarian granulosa cell tumors is still unknown, and hormone therapy may be an alternative for chemotherapy-resistant cases. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 46-year-old woman presented with a third recurrence after primary treatment of granulosa cell tumors. She developed tumor progression and drug-induced nephritis after 6 cycles of combined treatment with cisplatin and paclitaxel for the second recurrence and failed to benefit from chemotherapy, after the third optimal cytoreduction and tumor progression after 6 months of letrozole treatment...

Background: Since progesterone alone does not seem to be enough for luteal phase support (LPS), especially in frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles, so gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) is suggested as an adjuvant therapy in combination with progesterone for LPS. Objective: To evaluate the effects of the administration of GnRH-a with vaginal progesterone compared to vaginal progesterone alone in luteal phase support of the frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles...

A capillary electrophoresis-tandem mass spectrometry method with a multisegment injection and an in-capillary field-enhanced sample stacking for determination of therapeutic peptide triptorelin in pharmaceutical and biological matrices was developed. The CE separation conditions were optimized in order to obtain maximal separation efficiency, analytical signal intensity and stability, and minimal adsorption of the analyzed peptide onto the capillary wall (1 M formic acid-HFo, pH 1.88). The implementation of the field-enhanced sample injection into CE improved the value of limit of detection 50 times while the multisegment injection increased the sample throughput three times in comparison to a conventional CE approach...

Triptorelin has been used after surgery in deep infiltrating endometriosis. This post-hoc analysis aimed to evaluate symptom control between patients receiving 1-3 triptorelin injections and those receiving 4-6 injections within 24 months of conservative surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis, in the real-world.Included patients were divided into two groups (received up to 3 months injections in group A, 4-6 injections in group B) based on the numbers of triptorelin (Diphereline, 3.75 mg intramuscular injection once every 28 days for up to 24 weeks) administration...

BACKGROUND: The hyper androgenic status is a major complication of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) that deteriorates endometrial function and increases miscarriage rate. This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of GnRH agonist before frozen-thawed embryo transfer in improving pregnancy outcome in infertile women with PCOS. METHODS: This single-blind, randomized controlled trial was performed at Dr Shariati hospital and Omid Fertility Clinic in Tehran, Iran...

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of Glycyrrhiza glabra (Licorice), a cyclooxygenase- 2 inhibitor (Celecoxib) and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog (Diphereline®), with a control group on endometrial implants in rats. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, endometriosis was induced in rats by auto transplantation and after confirmation, the rats were divided into 4 groups that were treated for 6 weeks with normal saline (0...

Objectives: There are many drugs for of symptomatic fibroids. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are the well known drugs. Also, aromatase inhibitors are effective. All published studies surveyed the effect of one of these two drugs. In this study as the first study decided to evaluate the effectiveness of the combination of GnRH agonists + aromatise inhibitor on the uterine fibroids. Methods: A cross-sectional prospective case series study was performed on 10 known cases of uterine fibroids late perimenopause, at least 3 myomas >5 cm, abnormal uterine bleeding and anemia due to fibroids, candidate for hysterectomy, no tendency to surgery...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Abnormal uterine bleeding is one of the most common debilitating menstrual problems. The first therapeutic strategy for abnormal uterine bleeding is drug treatment. This study was, therefore, designed to determine the efficacy of megestrol, medroxyprogesterone, GnRh agonist, Levonorgestrol IUD and endometrial ablation on bleeding and also to evaluate the side effects of each methods in patients with menorrhagia who were admitted to the Shahid Sadoughi clinic of Yazd University of Medical Sciences...

BACKGROUND: This research was conducted to introduce a patient with rare ovarian mixed germ cell tumor, presented as molar pregnancy. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 16 year old woman admitted with diagnosis of molar pregnancy. Abdominal enlargement was the only complaint. She had a large pelvic mass in physical examination. The first diagnosis was molar pregnancy due to previous ultrasonic reports and positive βeta HCG. Urine pregnancy test was positive. As suction curettage was performed for her, surprisingly, the size of uterus was normal and no molar tissue was found in pathologic examination...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the usefulness of vaginal danazol and diphereline in the management of intra-operative bleeding during hysteroscopy. DESIGN: Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENTS: One hundred and ninety participants of reproductive age were enrolled for operative hysteroscopy. Thirty women were excluded from the study. INTERVENTIONS: One hundred and sixty participants with submucous myomas were allocated at random to receive either vaginal danazol (200mg BID, 30 days before surgery) or intramuscular diphereline (twice with a 28-day interval)...

BACKGROUND: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists initiate androgen deprivation in treating prostate cancer (PC). Triptorelin is a synthetic GnRH and many of its market brands such as Diphereline have been introduced so far. OBJECTIVES: We compared the efficacy of a sustained-release formulation of Triptorelin (Microrelin), domestically produced in Iran, and compared it with Diphereline in a double-blinded randomized clinical trial. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients were randomly assigned to Group A (Microrelin S...

AIM: Our aim was to analyze the effect of reducing the dose of depot gonadotrophin-regulating hormone-agonist (GnRH-a) to 1.0 mg on pituitary desensitization and clinical outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer cycles. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This retrospective self-control study was conducted on 143 patients who underwent repeated long-protocol treatment from 1 January 2011 to 31 May 2012 at our hospital. Of the 143 patients, 64 received reduced-dose depot (1...

UNLABELLED: Twenty-five percent of breast cancer cases are detected during premenopausal period and the number of young women suffering from breast cancer is increasing in the world, especially in Iran. Preservation of fertility and ovarian function leads to improved quality of life of these patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist on menstrual reverse in breast cancer cases treated with cyclophosphamide regimen. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted on 42 adenocarcinoma cases...

Treatment of central precocious puberty (CPP) is the administration of GnRH analogs. Metabolic syndrome comprised metabolic disturbances that confer increased risk of (CVD) diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease. This study is a longitudinal prospective study in pediatric endocrinology clinic. 30 non-obese children with idiopathic CPP were involved. Total body weight, height, blood pressure, BMI and waist circumference of the patients along with their triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL), fasting plasma sugar (FPS) were evaluated at the beginning and during 3 and 6 months GnRH analog therapy...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical effect of different doses of leuprorelin acetate in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET). METHODS: From January 2011 to December 2011, the data of 268 patients undergoing IVF and(or) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in Reproductive Medical Center, Clinical College of PLA, Anhui Medical University were studied retrospectively. All the patients were divided into three groups based on with long protocol and controlled ovarian stimulation (COH) including 83 cycles with 1...

INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy of half-dose, long-acting GnRH analogue (Diphereline) with Suprefact in IVF/ICSI (in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection) cycles. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this randomized clinical trial performed in Royan Institute, 126 infertile women who were first time candidates for IVF/ICSI were enrolled. Patients were randomly divided into two groups by using a random number table. In one group, 62 patients received a single half dose, 1...

The novel physical hydrogels composed of chitosan or its water soluble derivatives such as carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCh) and sodium carboxymethyl chitosan (NaCMCh) and opened ring polyvinyl pyrrolidone (OP-PVP) were used as a controlled delivery system for triptorelin acetate, a luteinizing-releasing hormone agonist. The in situ gel forming system designed according to physical interactions such as chains entanglements and hydrophilic attractions especially h-bonds of chitosan and/or NaCMCh and OR-PVP. In order to increase in situ gel forming rate the chitosan microspheres prepared through spray drying technique...