Human Growth Hormone Pre-treatment for 6 Weeks Prior to Ovulation Induction for IVF
NCT ID: NCT02179255
Last Updated: 2020-02-18
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
PHASE1/PHASE2
30 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2014-08-01
2022-06-30
Brief Summary
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The investigators plan to recruit 30 women (15 in each group) to an open label randomized controlled trial of HGH for augmentation of ovarian response among women with documented DOR and poor prior response to ovulation induction.
Eligible participants will be women \< 45 years with documented history of prior retrieval of 2 or fewer oocytes while on maximal ovulation induction despite prior supplementation with dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA).
Women will be treated with 1.9 mg (5.7 units) of HGH per day, beginning about 6 weeks before start of their treatment cycle. Cost of treatment with HGH will be a cost to the participating patient. HGH will cost the patient approximately $800 per week of treatment. Patients who are randomized to the non-HGH treated group, and do not conceive, will in the following cycle be offered HGH supplementation outside of this clinical trial. This subsequent cycle will not be part of the study dataset and patients will also be responsible for the cost of HGH.
Even with only 7 patients in each group, this trial will have a 99% power (error 0.05%) to detect a mean increase to 4 oocytes in the treated group. The investigators plan to recruit 15 patients in each group to allow for possible dropouts.
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Detailed Description
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* Turner's syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects a girl's development.
* Prader-Willi syndrome, an uncommon genetic disorder causing poor muscle tone, low levels of sex hormones, and a constant feeling of hunger.
* Chronic kidney insufficiency.
* HGH deficiency or insufficiency.
* Children born small for gestational age.
In adults, approved uses of HGH include:
* Short bowel syndrome, a condition in which nutrients are not properly absorbed due to severe intestinal disease or the surgical removal of a large portion of the small intestine.
* HGH deficiency due to rare pituitary tumors or their treatment.
* Muscle-wasting disease associated with HIV/AIDS.
HGH supplementation is potentially useful in ovulation induction. Over the last decade, as recombinant HGH has become commercially available, there have been many studies looking at the effects of HGH on ovulation induction. Almost all of these studies administered HGH along with routine fertility medication during the ovulation induction cycle. Most studies used HGH doses between 4 units and 12 Units. A few studies started GH on day 21 of the previous cycle.
A recent Cochrane review found that, while HGH did not improve results in routine IVF cycles there is "some evidence of increased pregnancy and birth rates in women who are considered 'poor responders' to in vitro fertilization."
HGH is reported to modulate the action of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) on follicles by up-regulating local synthesis of IGF-1. A similar effect was, interestingly, noted by Casson et al. (Casson, Santoro et al. 1998; Casson, Lindsay et al. 2000) in early experiments using DHEA with treated patients having increased IGF-1. Much of the focus on gonadotropin /IGF-1
interaction has revolved around the effects on granulosa cell cultures to increase aromatase activity, estradiol production progesterone production and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) receptor formation. However,Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) also has a proposed role in stimulating early follicle development and oocyte maturation (Yoshimura, Ando et al. 1996; Yoshimura, Aoki et al. 1996).
Based on these observations, we believe that HGH in past trials has not been used to maximal effect. Since HGH, like DHEA, appears to affect small growing follicles, weeks to months removed from gonadotropin sensitivity, the greatest potential for HGH, under our hypothesis, would be its use, attempting to affect these small growing follicles. In analogy to DHEA supplementation, this would mean that HGH supplementation would have to be initiated at least 6 weeks prior to IVF cycle stimulation start. Theoretically, administration of HGH during the 6 week before starting an IVF cycle will have an effect on developing antral follicles to present a larger and better quality cohort of follicles when ovulation induction is begun.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Human Growth Hormone
1.9 mg (5.7 units) daily injection of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for at least 6 weeks (42 days) plus FSH 450 to 600 units per day administered subcutaneous (SQ) daily dose adjusted based on the patients response starting on day 2 of the 28 day menstrual cycle and continued until Ovulation trigger
Human Growth Hormone
1.9 mg (5.7 units) daily injection of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for at least 6 weeks (42 days) continuing into the approximately 14 days of ovulation induction phase of the trial.
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FSH 450 to 600 units per day administered SQ daily dose adjusted based on the patients response starting on day 2 of the 28 day menstrual cycle and continued until Ovulation trigger
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FSH 450 to 600 units per day administered SQ daily dose adjusted based on the patients response starting on day 2 of the 28 day menstrual cycle and continued until Ovulation trigger
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FSH 450 to 600 units per day administered SQ daily dose adjusted based on the patients response starting on day 2 of the 28 day menstrual cycle and continued until Ovulation trigger
Interventions
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Human Growth Hormone
1.9 mg (5.7 units) daily injection of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for at least 6 weeks (42 days) continuing into the approximately 14 days of ovulation induction phase of the trial.
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FSH 450 to 600 units per day administered SQ daily dose adjusted based on the patients response starting on day 2 of the 28 day menstrual cycle and continued until Ovulation trigger
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
44 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Center for Human Reproduction
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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David H Barad, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Center for Human Reproduction
Norbert Gleicher
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Center for Human Reproduction
Locations
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Center for Human Reproduction
New York, New York, United States
Countries
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References
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FDA approves human growth hormone for wasting syndrome. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 1996 Dec;10(6):379-80. No abstract available.
FDA approves growth hormone for short children. Child Health Alert. 2003 Sep;21:4. No abstract available.
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Suikkari A, MacLachlan V, Koistinen R, Seppala M, Healy D. Double-blind placebo controlled study: human biosynthetic growth hormone for assisted reproductive technology. Fertil Steril. 1996 Apr;65(4):800-5. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58217-x.
Bergh C, Carlstrom K, Selleskog U, Hillensjo T. Effect of growth hormone on follicular fluid androgen levels in patients treated with gonadotropins before in vitro fertilization. Eur J Endocrinol. 1996 Feb;134(2):190-6. doi: 10.1530/eje.0.1340190.
Casson PR, Lindsay MS, Pisarska MD, Carson SA, Buster JE. Dehydroepiandrosterone supplementation augments ovarian stimulation in poor responders: a case series. Hum Reprod. 2000 Oct;15(10):2129-32. doi: 10.1093/humrep/15.10.2129.
Casson PR, Santoro N, Elkind-Hirsch K, Carson SA, Hornsby PJ, Abraham G, Buster JE. Postmenopausal dehydroepiandrosterone administration increases free insulin-like growth factor-I and decreases high-density lipoprotein: a six-month trial. Fertil Steril. 1998 Jul;70(1):107-10. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00121-6.
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Owen EJ, Shoham Z, Mason BA, Ostergaard H, Jacobs HS. Cotreatment with growth hormone, after pituitary suppression, for ovarian stimulation in in vitro fertilization: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-control trial. Fertil Steril. 1991 Dec;56(6):1104-10. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)54724-4.
Tesarik J, Hazout A, Mendoza C. Improvement of delivery and live birth rates after ICSI in women aged >40 years by ovarian co-stimulation with growth hormone. Hum Reprod. 2005 Sep;20(9):2536-41. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dei066. Epub 2005 Apr 28.
Yoshimura Y, Ando M, Nagamatsu S, Iwashita M, Adachi T, Sueoka K, Miyazaki T, Kuji N, Tanaka M. Effects of insulin-like growth factor-I on follicle growth, oocyte maturation, and ovarian steroidogenesis and plasminogen activator activity in the rabbit. Biol Reprod. 1996 Jul;55(1):152-60. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod55.1.152.
Demeestere I, Gervy C, Centner J, Devreker F, Englert Y, Delbaere A. Effect of insulin-like growth factor-I during preantral follicular culture on steroidogenesis, in vitro oocyte maturation, and embryo development in mice. Biol Reprod. 2004 Jun;70(6):1664-9. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.023317. Epub 2004 Feb 11.
Yoshimura Y, Aoki N, Sueoka K, Miyazaki T, Kuji N, Tanaka M, Kobayashi T. Interactions between insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and the renin-angiotensin system in follicular growth and ovulation. J Clin Invest. 1996 Jul 15;98(2):308-16. doi: 10.1172/JCI118794.
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Other Identifiers
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04082014-02
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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