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Live Birth Rate is Significantly Higher After Blastocyst Transfer Than After Cleavage-stage Embryo Transfer when at Least Four Embryos Are Available on Day 3 of Embryo Culture. A Randomized Prospective Study

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Journal Hum Reprod
Date 2005 Aug 2
PMID 16055454
Citations 54
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Abstract

Introduction: In a randomized controlled trial, we assessed whether pregnancy outcome would be improved by extending embryo culture to day 5 and transferring a blastocyst in patients with at least four good-quality embryos on day 3.

Methods: Multifollicular ovarian stimulation was performed with a GnRH agonist in 44% of patients and with a GnRH antagonist in 56%. Overall, 164 patients younger than 37 years fulfilled embryo quality criteria (at least four having at least six cells on the morning of day 3, maximum 20% anucleate fragments) on the third day of culture and were randomized to the day 3 (n = 84) or day 5 (n = 80) groups. Equal numbers of embryos (n = 2) were transferred in each group.

Results: Demographics, stimulation parameters and embryological data were comparable in the two groups. Blastocyst-stage transfer resulted in a significantly higher ongoing pregnancy rate [51.3 versus 27.4%; odds ratio (OR) 2.78, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.45-5.34] and live birth rate (47.5 versus 27.4%; OR 2.40, 95% CI 1.25-4.59) compared with day-3 embryo transfer. A high twin birth rate was observed in both groups (36.8 versus 30.4%; P > 0.05).

Conclusions: A threshold of four good embryos on the third day of embryo culture appears to indicate that the patient will benefit from embryo transfer at the blastocyst stage and have a better chance of achieving a live delivery than with cleavage-stage embryo transfer.

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