Health of Frozen Transferred Versus Fresh Transferred Children
NCT ID: NCT04099784
Last Updated: 2020-03-03
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COMPLETED
255 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2019-09-01
2019-11-20
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Comparing these two strategies, up till now, there are 4 published randomized control trials (RCTs) indicating different methods for certain groups of patients (Chen et al., 2016; Shi et al., 2018; Vuong et al., 2018; Wei et al., 2019). Regarding the efficacy, the freeze-all strategy outweighs the fresh embryo transfer in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). While that efficacy gets a controversy in non-PCOS or ovulatory patients; two groups of authors indicated that these 2 strategies are equally effective, while the other group claims that the better result goes to cycles with frozen embryos. In term of safety, the rate of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is the equivalent or lower in the freeze-all group, which implies the important role of embryo-freezing in avoiding maternal risk. The question that whether freezing the embryos exerts effect on offspring is not thoroughly understood. The mostly used parameter in evaluating the safety of children is the perinatal status of infants, not the development of these children.
Searching literature, in 2010, S. Pelkonen published a large cohort study indicating that freezing the embryos do not change the rate of prematurity, low birthweight and being small for gestational age (Pelkonen et al., 2010). Looking further in our freeze-only study, our sub-analysis indicates that the livebirth weight of infants born from frozen embryos is 300 gram heavier than that from fresh embryos (Vuong et al., 2018). Following 4 studies comparing fresh and frozen embryo transfer, children from frozen embryos are similar or higher in term of newborn weight, and there is no study investigate the onward development of childrens born from these two strategies. The only proof on the development of children born from fresh verus frozen embryo is from one study with no randomization which states that children from fresh and frozen embryos share similar academic performance at the age 15-16 (Spangmose et al., 2019). We found no study investigate the impact of different embryo transfer strategies on the growth of children resulting from either fresh or frozen embryos.
In order to give strong recommendation on the efficacy and safety of fresh versus frozen embryo transfer, we conduct this study in order to investigate the physical and mental development of children from fresh versus frozen embryo transfer. Based on our Freeze-only study (Vuong et al., 2018), the women without polycystic ovary syndrome undergoing the first or second IVF were randomly assigned to receive either fresh or frozen embryos on day 3 after oocyte retrieval, which leads to the similarity in characteristics of these two groups. Hence, the result from analysing these offsprings would be preciously valuable.
Conditions
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Study Design
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PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Freeze-only
Children born from freeze-only group and frozen embryo transfer
Developmental score according to The Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition - ASQ®-3
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Physical development and General Health
Physical development and General health examination
Developmental Red flags
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Fresh
Children born from fresh embryo transfer
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Physical development and General Health
Physical development and General health examination
Developmental Red flags
Developmental Red flags Questionnaires
Interventions
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Developmental score according to The Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition - ASQ®-3
Ages \& Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3) is a developmental screening tool designed for use by early educators and health care professionals. It relies on parents as experts, is easy-to-use, family-friendly and creates the snapshot needed to catch delays and celebrate milestones.
Physical development and General Health
Physical development and General health examination
Developmental Red flags
Developmental Red flags Questionnaires
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Parents agree to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
1 Month
66 Months
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Mỹ Đức Hospital
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Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Lan N Vuong, MD, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Mỹ Đức Hospital
Locations
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Mỹ Đức Hospital
Ho Chi Minh City, Tan Binh, Vietnam
Countries
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References
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Chen ZJ, Shi Y, Sun Y, Zhang B, Liang X, Cao Y, Yang J, Liu J, Wei D, Weng N, Tian L, Hao C, Yang D, Zhou F, Shi J, Xu Y, Li J, Yan J, Qin Y, Zhao H, Zhang H, Legro RS. Fresh versus Frozen Embryos for Infertility in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2016 Aug 11;375(6):523-33. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1513873.
Shi Y, Sun Y, Hao C, Zhang H, Wei D, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Deng X, Qi X, Li H, Ma X, Ren H, Wang Y, Zhang D, Wang B, Liu F, Wu Q, Wang Z, Bai H, Li Y, Zhou Y, Sun M, Liu H, Li J, Zhang L, Chen X, Zhang S, Sun X, Legro RS, Chen ZJ. Transfer of Fresh versus Frozen Embryos in Ovulatory Women. N Engl J Med. 2018 Jan 11;378(2):126-136. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1705334.
Vuong LN, Dang VQ, Ho TM, Huynh BG, Ha DT, Pham TD, Nguyen LK, Norman RJ, Mol BW. IVF Transfer of Fresh or Frozen Embryos in Women without Polycystic Ovaries. N Engl J Med. 2018 Jan 11;378(2):137-147. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1703768.
Wei D, Liu JY, Sun Y, Shi Y, Zhang B, Liu JQ, Tan J, Liang X, Cao Y, Wang Z, Qin Y, Zhao H, Zhou Y, Ren H, Hao G, Ling X, Zhao J, Zhang Y, Qi X, Zhang L, Deng X, Chen X, Zhu Y, Wang X, Tian LF, Lv Q, Ma X, Zhang H, Legro RS, Chen ZJ. Frozen versus fresh single blastocyst transfer in ovulatory women: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2019 Mar 30;393(10178):1310-1318. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32843-5. Epub 2019 Feb 28.
Pelkonen S, Koivunen R, Gissler M, Nuojua-Huttunen S, Suikkari AM, Hyden-Granskog C, Martikainen H, Tiitinen A, Hartikainen AL. Perinatal outcome of children born after frozen and fresh embryo transfer: the Finnish cohort study 1995-2006. Hum Reprod. 2010 Apr;25(4):914-23. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dep477. Epub 2010 Feb 2.
Spangmose AL, Malchau SS, Henningsen AA, Forman JL, Rasmussen S, Loft A, Schmidt L, Pinborg A. Academic performance in adolescents aged 15-16 years born after frozen embryo transfer compared with fresh embryo transfer: a nationwide registry-based cohort study. BJOG. 2019 Jan;126(2):261-269. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15484. Epub 2018 Oct 24.
Vuong LN, Ly TT, Nguyen NA, Nguyen LMT, Le XTH, Le TK, Le KTQ, Le TV, Nguyen MHN, Dang VQ, Norman RJ, Mol BW, Ho TM. Development of children born from freeze-only versus fresh embryo transfer: follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Fertil Steril. 2020 Sep;114(3):558-566. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.04.041. Epub 2020 Jun 16.
Other Identifiers
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CS/BVMĐ/19/08
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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