NCT00736177

Comparison of Transfers of Fresh and Thawed Embryos in Patients With Prior Failed Embryo Transfer Cycles

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fertility Center of Las Vegas · Industry
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study seeks to determine if patients with a history of failed fresh embryo transfer(s) will have increased success rates with embryo cryopreservation and subsequent thawed embryo transfer when compared to fresh embryo transfer.

Detailed description

Implantation failure remains a significant problem in cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Patients with a history of implantation failure in fresh autologous cycles have been shown have reduced chance of success in subsequent fresh autologous cycles. A potentially frequent cause of implantation failure is reduced endometrial receptivity following ovarian stimulation, perhaps due to the effects of supraphysiologic hormone levels on endometrial development. Therefore, such patients may have a greater chance of success if all of their embryos are cryopreserved for use in a subsequent cycle in which endometrial development can be more carefully controlled, absent the effects of ovarian stimulation. Therefore this study compares success rates in cycles of fresh embryo transfer and cycles with transfer of frozen-thawed embryos.

Conditions

• Infertility
• Subfertility

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Embryo cryopreservation	Subjects in the Test group will have their embryos cryopreserved for transfer in a subsequent cycle.
PROCEDURE	Fresh embryo transfer	Subjects in the Control group will receive fresh embryo transfer.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-08-01
• Primary completion: 2009-08-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2008-08-15
• Last updated: 2014-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States