NCT01501448

Oral Estradiol Valerate Versus Oral Contraceptive Pill in Invitro Fertilization Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (actual)
• Sponsor: IVI Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 38 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The recent controversy regarding the use of pill for cycle planning in GnRH antagonists IVF cycle has driven the search for new ways to plan IVF cycles in order to avoid weekends or to equally distribute the workload. Recently, mid-late luteal phase oral estrogens seem to be as good as the pill. The investigators will compare OCP vs oral estrogens to plan the initiation of IVF cycles.

Conditions

• Infertility

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Levonorgestrel and ethinylestradiol	30 microgram of ethinylestradiol plus levonorgestrel daily for 12 to 16 days
DRUG	Estradiol valerate	4mg estradiol valerate from cycle day 20 till the day before the initiation of the cycle

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2011-12-29
• Last updated: 2016-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain