Effects of Implementing a Post-surgical Dietary and Lifestyle Protocol on Uterine Fibroid Recurrence
This prospective pilot study will enroll asymptomatic, post-surgical patients who underwent a laparoscopic, open, robotic myomectomy, or other procedures ie Sonata, Accessa for fibroid removal. Patients will be offered enrollment into a lifestyle, nutrition, and exercise program to assess whether this program is acceptable and feasible for patients. Ultimately, we hope to better understand if LIFE can modify fibroid recurrence.
Effects of MRI Acceleration: Comparison with the Current NYU Standard
Magnetic resonance imaging can be acquired in different fashions. In recent times, a premium has been put on acceleration for various reasons, including patient comfort, decreasing motion, and increasing accessibility and availability. While the accelerated acquisition of MR images decreases acquisition time, there are effects on spatial and contrast resolution, which can influence image quality and ultimately diagnostic performance. NYU currently employs a low degree of MRI acceleration as our standard of care. However, multiple publications suggest that higher acceleration factors are possible without loss of diagnostic information but shorter MRI exams. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of faster image acceleration on image quality and diagnostic performance.
Effects of sleep among infants and toddlers on their neurodevelopmental outcomes
This study will examine the effects of infant and toddler sleep patterns among preterm and full-term infants on their neurodevelopmental outcomes following discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The purpose of this study is to assess infant and toddler sleep by way of parental completion of a validated questionnaire namely Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ) and identifying any potential correlating changes in the neurodevelopment using Bayley IV neurodevelopment assessment during their scheduled follow-up visit at neonatal follow-up clinic until 30 months of corrected age.
Effects of Successful OSA TreatmENT on Memory and AD BIomarkers in Older AduLts (ESSENTIAL)
The prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is high and projected to increase. Further, epidemiological data suggests that ~15% of AD risk may be attributed to sleep problems. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common among the elderly (30-55%), and our prior work has established that cognitively normal older women with OSA have nearly double the 5-year risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Further, we showed that: i. OSA patients treated with positive airway pressure (PAP) experienced significant overnight increases in plasma neurofilament light (NfL), a marker of neural injury, with trends for AD-specific biomarkers (i.e. Aß40 and Tau) after PAP withdrawal; ii. OSA predicted longitudinal increases in AD biomarkers; and, iii. PAP treatment delayed the onset of MCI in subjects with reported OSA. There is therefore strong evidence suggesting that OSA treatment could be an important prevention strategy for AD. However, OSA trials to slow progression to AD face a number of challenges. First, the most effective therapy (i.e. PAP) has poor adherence. Second is defining the target population, prior trials targeted OSA patients with MCI/AD, who have advanced disease and could be less amenable to treatment. A third challenge is identifying cognitive testing that is sensitive to both sleep disruption and predictive of AD risk. (To better capture effects of OSA on the offline memory processing phase requires sleep-dependent memory paradigms, in which the encoding and recall are separated by a period of sleep with/without OSA). Finally, a randomized trial of sufficient duration to test the effects of treatment of OSA on risk of incident AD is currently not feasible. Our proposed trial, Effects of Successful OSA TreatmENT on Memory and AD BIomarkers in Older AduLts (ESSENTIAL), addresses these challenges. ESSENTIAL is a 5-year study of cognitively normal older adults with newly diagnosed OSA, ages 55-75, recruited from 4 well-established sleep clinics. OSA patients (n=200) will be randomized to either: i) a 3-month OSA treatment by any combination of PAP, OAT, and positional therapy that results in an “effective” improvement in the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI); ii) a waitlist control group to receive treatment at the conclusion of the 3-month intervention period. Effectively treated individuals (~150) and untreated individuals (~50 previously randomized +50 additionally-recruited untreated patients from the sleep clinic) will then be followed for up to 24 months to compare whether sustained improvements in AHI are associated with better cognitive function and AD biomarker change profiles as compared to untreated controls. Participants will undergo PSG, actigraphy, cognitive tests, and blood draws at baseline, 3 and 24 months. Our aims are to: 1) test 3-month differences in plasma AD biomarkers (NfL, p-tau, Aß) between those randomized to treatment and wait-list control groups; 2) test 3-month differences in cognition between the OSA treatment and wait-list control groups; 3) examine if sustained reduction in AHI over 24 months among effectively treated participants versus untreated controls is associated with better 24-month change profiles for AD biomarkers and cognition.
Egg Donation | NYU Langone Health
The NYU Langone Fertility Center offers an Egg Donor Program, and also seeks women to donate their eggs to help others achieve pregnancy.
Egg Donor Form | NYU Langone Health
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Egg Donor Program | NYU Langone Health
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The Egg Freezing and Embryo Banking Program at the NYU Langone Fertility Center helps preserve fertility.
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At NYU Langone Reproductive Specialists of New York, we help women, men, and couples preserve their fertility.
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Doctors at NYU Langone diagnose elbow sprains and strains and offer treatments to help you heal.