Increasing vaginal progesterone gel supplementation after frozen–thawed embryo transfer significantly increases the delivery rate

Effect of Progesterone Supplementation on Natural Frozen-Thawed Embryo Transfer Cycles: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Comparison Between the Pregnancy Outcome after Easy Embryo Transfer and Difficult Embryo Transfer

Background: The role of embryo transfer (ET) in the success of in vitro fertilization/intra cytoplasmic sperm injection treatment is not well understood. In the present study we classified ET technique as difficult and easy types according to certain strict criteria, and compared the pregnancy outcome of the two ET types. Methods: This study was performed retrospectively on 295 infertile patien...

The effect of luteal phase progesterone supplementation on natural frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of progesterone supplementation during the luteal phase on pregnancy outcome in natural frozen-thawed embyo transfer (FTET) cycles. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, 228 consecutive patients who underwent FTET cycles between January 2009 and September 2012 were included. One hundred forty-five patients received luteal progesterone support (P group) b...

Assisted hatching of poor-quality bovine embryos increases pregnancy success rate after embryo transfer.

Embryos of good, fair and poor quality were collected from superovulated cows and subjected to zona cutting (ZC) treatment using a needle under either an inverted microscope or a stereomicroscope. One (single transfer) or 2 (twin transfer) embryos with or without prior ZC treatment were transferred nonsurgically to recipients. Without the ZC treatment, lower embryonic quality resulted in lower ...

Prospective randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of a vaginal ring releasing progesterone for IVF and oocyte donation.

A polysyloxane vaginal ring containing 1g of natural progesterone was developed as luteal supplementation for women treated with IVF-embryo transfer and for agonadal women participating in an oocyte donation programme. The ring provides continuous release of progesterone (10-20 nmol/l) for 90 days. The efficacy of this form of progesterone supplementation was evaluated in two multicentre prospe...