NCT03773263

New Application of Sequential in Vitro Muturation System for Infertility Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

New Application of Oocyte Sequential Culture and in Vitro Muturation System for Infertility Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: a Multi-center Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sun Yat-sen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM) is an artificial reproductive technologies (ART) in which cumulus-oocyte complex (COC) are collected at the immature germinal vesicle (GV) stage from unstimulated or FSH-primed ovaries and matured in vitro before fertilization. IVM has been proposed as a more patient-friendly ART alternative to conventional IVF. Contrary to IVF, IVM is the only ART method with no cases of OHSS reported. Hence, patients with PCOS represent the major target population for IVM treatment. In clinical practice of standard IVM, COCs are aspirated from unstimulated or mildly stimulated ovaries and rapidly removed from the meiotic-inhibiting influence of the follicle and the follicular fluid. Regardless of in vitro gonadotrophin treatment, oocytes mature spontaneously in vitro, hence undergoing meiotic resumption in the absence of the usual elaborate cascade of endocrine and paracrine molecular signals that induce maturation in vivo. As such, the maturation of oocytes by standard IVM techniques is an artefact that compromises subsequent oocyte developmental competence. Numbers of studies have been proposed to improve the efficiency of IVM system. Synchronization of meiotic and cytoplasmic maturation in antral oocytes arrested at the immature GV-stage remains a major challenge and is of fundamental importance for successful fertilization. High intra-oocyte levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), is crucial to maintain the nearly fully-grown oocytes under meiotic arrest and to induce oocyte maturation. Research in animal models has indicated that a non-physiological drop of cAMP levels in the oocyte results in asynchronous nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation. Investigators have reported the development of a novel in vitro simulated sequential oocyte maturation system. Critical to success of the approach is a pre-IVM phase that generates a rapid increase in COC cAMP levels. Secondly, the system utilizes an extended IVM phase containing sufficient FSH to drive meiotic induction in the presence of a type-3 PDE inhibitor. The high levels of cAMP in the oocyte and the induced nature of oocyte maturation mimics some of the key, newly characterized molecular signals that occur during oocyte maturation in vivo. Technical and conceptual elements were first developed using mouse, bovine and human COCs. Investigators propose a randomized clinical trial to compare a novel sequential culture system with the traditional standard oocyte IVM system for PCOS patients.

Detailed description

A multi-center, prospective, randomized clinical trial will be conducted, of comparing sequential oocyte IVM system with traditional oocyte IVM system for high OHSS risk PCOS patients (AMH\>5.6ng/ml). The inclusion criteria will be infertile patients diagnosed by the Chinese PCOS criteria, aged below 35 years, and without other known factors interfere reproductive or metabolic functions. 300 PCOS patients will be included and randomized into either of two groups: group A will administrate sequential oocyte IVM system and group B will administrate traditional standard oocyte IVM system. The comparison will be made between groups, and both groups are conducted with the HMG administration and embryo vitrification freezing. The primary outcome of the study is live birth rate. The embryo development and pregnancy outcomes will be followed up and compared between groups.

Conditions

• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Infertility

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	sequential IVM system	The immature oocytes will be cultured in sequential oocyte IVM medium 1 for 6 hours (37℃, 5% CO2). After flushed 3 times, COCs were removed into sequential oocyte IVM medium 2 for further cultivation.
PROCEDURE	intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)	intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
PROCEDURE	Thawed embryo transfer (TET)	Patients administrates oestrogen (Progynova) 3mg twice a day for 10 to 12 days. From the day when endometrium reach a thickness of 8 mm and above, luteal phase support will be given with 10 mg progesterone (Dydrogesterone Tablets,) triple per day and utrogestan (Laboratories Besins International, Paris, France) 0.2g triple per day, until 14 days after embryo transfer.
DRUG	traditional IVM system	COCs were aspirated and the immature oocytes will be cultured in traditional standard oocyte IVM system (Sage). 30 and 44 hours after cultivation, the maturity of oocytes will be assessed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2020-03-01
• First posted: 2018-12-12
• Last updated: 2018-12-12

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: China