Ism1 Versus EmbryoGen Media for Embryo Culture in Previous Pregnancy Loss Cases

NCT ID: NCT01689428

Last Updated: 2012-09-21

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-09-30

Study Completion Date

2013-09-30

Brief Summary

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Recently, it has been suggested that culture of embryos in EmbryoGen medium can increase the live birth rate in IVF patients with a previous history of pregnancy loss.

Couples requiring IVF treatment and with a past experience of miscarriage and/or biochemical pregnancy will be included in the study.

Controlled ovarian stimulation protocol will consist of an agonist down regulation and follicular stimulation by recombinant FSH. Fertilization will be achieved by standard IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertilized eggs will be cultured in 6% CO2, 5% O2, 89% N2 atmosphere in microdrops. In the treatment group EmbryoGen culture medium (EG, Origio, Måløv, Denmark) will be adopted throughout the culture period. In the control group, inseminated oocytes will be cultured in standard culture conditions, i.e. IMS1 medium (ISM1, Origio, Måløv, Denmark), maintaining unchanged all other culture conditions.

Procedures of embryo transfer, will be carried out on day 2 using EmbryoGen or ISM1 respectively. The endometrial support will be the same in the two groups.

The investigators will consider ongoing clinical pregnancy as the primary outcome assuming a 25% of increment in ongoing clinical pregnancy rate in the group with EmbryoGen medium. As secondary outcome the investigators will assume a 5% of increment in ongoing implantation rate after 12 weeks in the group with EmbryoGen medium.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Infertility Miscarriage

Keywords

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IVF Embryo culture Ongoing Pregnancy rate Ongoing Implantation rate Miscarriage

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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IVF treatment EmbryoGen

Embryo culture in EmbryoGen medium

No interventions assigned to this group

IVF treatment ISM1

Embryo culture in ISM1 medium

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- At least one (maximum 3) miscarriage and/or biochemical pregnancy after ART treatment

Exclusion Criteria

* Frozen spermatozoa
* Frozen oocytes
* women with PCO and PCOS
* women with more than 4 ART treatments
Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Biogenesi

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Mariabeatrice Dal Canto, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Biogenesi Reproductive medicine Centre

Locations

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Biogenesi Reproductive Medicine Centre

Monza, MB, Italy

Site Status

Countries

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Italy

References

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Agerholm I, Loft A, Hald F, Lemmen JG, Munding B, Sorensen PD, Ziebe S. Culture of human oocytes with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor has no effect on embryonic chromosomal constitution. Reprod Biomed Online. 2010 Apr;20(4):477-84. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.026. Epub 2009 Dec 28.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20129825 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EG1

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

EG48Asept12

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id