Day 2 elective single embryo transfer in clinical practice: better outcome in ICSI cycles.

نویسندگان

  • Hannu Martikainen
  • Mauri Orava
  • Jouni Lakkakorpi
  • Leena Tuomivaara
چکیده

BACKGROUND Single embryo transfer (SET) after IVF/ICSI has been shown to result in an acceptable pregnancy rate in selected subjects. In our unit, SET is routinely carried out among women under the age of 36 in the first or second treatment cycle when a top-quality embryo is available. In order to define further the selection criteria for SET, we have analysed the outcome of elective SET (eSET), including the cumulative pregnancy rate after frozen embryo transfers, performed in the years 2000-2002 in the Oulu Fertility Center. METHODS During the study period, a total of 1271 transfers were performed, and in 468 cycles SET (39% of all transfers) was carried out. Of the SET cycles, in 308 cases a top-quality embryo was transferred on day 2 and extra embryos were frozen. Of these eSET cycles, ICSI was carried out in 87 cycles (28%). RESULTS The overall clinical pregnancy rate per transfer was 34.7% in the eSET cycles. In the eSET ICSI cycles, the clinical pregnancy rate was significantly higher than in the corresponding IVF cycles (50.6 versus 28.5%, P < 0.001). The cumulative pregnancy rate per patient after fresh and frozen embryo transfers was also significantly higher after ICSI (71.2 versus 53.4%, P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS A high cumulative pregnancy rate per oocyte retrieval can be achieved after eSET in daily clinical practice. The implantation rate of fresh top-quality embryos in the ICSI cycles was significantly higher than in the IVF cycles, possibly due to more successful selection of the embryo for embryo transfer on day 2 after ICSI. In addition, our data suggest that embryo quality is a more important determinant of outcome than the age of the woman.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Human reproduction

دوره 19 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004