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. 2017 Mar 28;2017(3):CD011184. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011184.pub2
Trial name or title Study comparing outcomes between conventional IVF and a "freeze‐all"‐strategy in assisted reproductive technology
Methods RCT
Estimated enrolment: 424
Participants Women aged 18 to 39
Inclusion criteria:
  • AMH > 6.28 pmol/L (Roche Elecsys assay)

  • Female age 18 years to less than 40 years

  • 1, 2, or 3 IVF/ICSI cycle with oocyte aspiration

  • Regular menstrual cycle between 24 and 35 days

  • BMI between 18 and 35

  • 2 ovaries

  • Can and will sign informed consent


Exclusion criteria:
  • Endometriosis stage III to IV

  • Ovarian cysts with diameter > 30 mm at day of start of stimulation

  • Submucosal fibroids

  • Women with severe comorbidity (IDDM, NIDDM, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, liver, or kidney disease)

  • Dysregulation of thyroid disease

  • Not Danish or English speaking

  • Contraindications or allergies to use of gonadotropins or GnRH antagonists

  • TESA

  • Oocyte donation

  • Previous inclusion in the study

Interventions Freeze‐all: transfer of a frozen‐thawed blastocyst in a subsequent natural menstrual cycle
Fresh embryo transfer: standard procedure
Outcomes
  • Cumulative live birth: measured after 1 stimulated cycle with oocyte retrieval and after use of all frozen blastocysts or after at least 1 year of follow‐up

  • Time to pregnancy: from start of ovarian stimulation to positive hCG

  • Ongoing pregnancy per transfer of the first blastocyst, per oocyte pick‐up, per start of ovarian stimulation, and per randomised woman

  • Live birth after the first blastocyst transfer calculated per randomised woman, per started ovarian stimulation, per oocyte pick‐up, and per transfer

  • Preterm birth

  • Low birth weight

  • Small for gestational age

  • Large for gestational age

  • Perinatal mortality

  • Pre‐eclampsia

  • Placental rupture

  • Miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies

Starting date May 2016
Contact information Sacha Stormlund: sacha.stormlund.01@regionh.dk
Anja Pinborg: anja.bisgaard.pinborg@regionh.dk
Notes clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT02746562