Clinical trial NCT04310761: Retrospective Comparison of Pregnancy Outcome of Infertile Patients After Fresh and Warmed Single Blastocyst Transfer From 2014 to 2018.
Official title: Retrospective Comparison of Pregnancy Outcome of Infertile Patients After Fresh and Warmed Single Blastocyst Transfer From 2014 to 2018.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Primary Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes; Assisted Reproductive Technology
Lead sponsor: Istituto Clinico Humanitas
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-03-17
Enrollment: 4613
Sex: FEMALE
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All infertile patients which performed a single fresh and a single frozen embryo transfer from 2014 to 2018.

Brief summary: The investigators retrospectively analysed the maternal and neonatal outcomes following a single fresh blastocyst transfer and a single warmed blastocyst transfer from procedures performed between 2014 and 2018 in a tertiary level university based fertility clinic.

Detailed description: Previous studies that analysed pregnancy outcomes in women who underwent frozen single blastocyst transfer have shown an increase rate of large for gestational age and very large for gestational age (Zhang et al., 2019),increased maternal risks of placenta accreta and pregnancy-induced hypertension (Ishihara et al.,2014),and lower risks of placenta previa, placental abruption, very pre-term birth, small for gestational age, and perinatal mortality (Sha, Yin, Cheng,\& Massey, 2018) than fresh blastocyst transfer.

The main outcome of this study is to analyse the rate of live births with the relative gestational period and neonatal weight and still death and neonatal death per each single blastocyst transfer, both fresh and warmed. Secondary outcomes include the incidence of obstetric pathologies, gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, and defects of placentation.

The study database included all pregnancies occurred after both a single fresh and warmed blastocyst transfer between the five-year period from 2014 to 2018 at Humanitas Fertility Centre. The inclusion criteria were all patients, without any age limitations, which underwent either FIVET or ICSI and only transferred a single blastocyst. With regards to exclusion criteria, the following were considered: ovodonation, suspended cycles and embryos which were subjected to pre-implantation genetic testing.The investigator performed a comparison of maternal and neonatal outcomes in these pregnancies which occurred in the same period of time and in the same age-group of women.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Infertile women, without any age limitations, which underwent either FIVET or ICSI and only transferred a single blastocyst (warmed or fresh).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Ovodonation, suspended cycles, and embryos subjected to pre-implantation genetic testing.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rate of live births
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of obstetric pathologies
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
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References:
citation: Zhang J, Wang Y, Liu H, Mao X, Chen Q, Fan Y, Xiao Y, Kuang Y. Effect of in vitro culture period on birth weight after vitrified-warmed transfer cycles: analysis of 4,201 singleton newborns. Fertil Steril. 2019 Jan;111(1):97-104. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.10.006. Epub 2018 Nov 17.
citation: Ishihara O, Araki R, Kuwahara A, Itakura A, Saito H, Adamson GD. Impact of frozen-thawed single-blastocyst transfer on maternal and neonatal outcome: an analysis of 277,042 single-embryo transfer cycles from 2008 to 2010 in Japan. Fertil Steril. 2014 Jan;101(1):128-33. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.09.025. Epub 2013 Oct 23.
citation: Sha T, Yin X, Cheng W, Massey IY. Pregnancy-related complications and perinatal outcomes resulting from transfer of cryopreserved versus fresh embryos in vitro fertilization: a meta-analysis. Fertil Steril. 2018 Feb;109(2):330-342.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.10.019. Epub 2018 Jan 11.
citation: Cirillo F, Grilli L, Ronchetti C, Paladino I, Morenghi E, Busnelli A, Levi-Setti PE. Retrospective comparison of pregnancy outcomes of fresh and frozen-warmed single blastocyst transfer: a 5-year single-center experience. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2022 Jan;39(1):201-209. doi: 10.1007/s10815-021-02362-3. Epub 2021 Nov 26.