Korean J Fertil Steril.  2003 Sep;30(3):193-202.

Implantation Rate and Clinical Pregnancy Rate According to Dosage and Timing of Progesterone Administration for Secretory Endometrial Preparation in Frozen-Thawed Embryo Transfer Cycles

Affiliations
  • 1Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. novak21c@yahoo.co.kr
  • 2Laboratory of Reproductive Biology and Infertility, Samsung Cheil Hospital and Women's Healthcare Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the difference of implantation rate (IR) and clinical pregnancy rate (CPR) between two protocols of endometrial preperation in women undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles.
METHODS
This study was performed during the different time periods: A retrospective study from January 2000 to June 2001 (phase I) and a prospective study from July 2001 to March 2002 (phase II). All the patients received estradiol valerate (6 mg p.o. daily) starting from day 1 or 2 of the menstrual cycle without pituitary down regulation. Progesterone was administered around day 14 after sonographic confirmation of endometrial thickness > or = 7 mm and no growing follicle. In Group A (n=88, 99 cycles) of phase I, progesterone was administered i.m. at a dose of 50 mg daily from one day prior to thawing of pronuclear (PN) stage frozen embryo or three days prior to thawing of 6-8 cell stage frozen embryo and then each stage embryos were trasnsferred 2 days or 1 day later after thawing. In Group B (n=246, 299 cycles) of phase I, patients recieved progesterone 100 mg i.m. from one day earlier than group A; two days prior to PN embryo thawing, four days prior to of 6-8 cell embryo thawing. During the phase II, to exclude any differences in embryo transfer procedures, in Group 1 (n=23, 28 cycles) of phase II embryo was transfered by one who have used the progesterone protocol since the phase I. In Group 2 (n=122, 139 cycles) of phase II embryo was transfered by one who use the progesterone protocol from the phase II.
RESULTS
When compared across the phase and group, there were no significant differences in the characteristics. During the phase I, there were significant increase in IR (14.4% vs 5.9%, p=0.001) and CPR (28.3% vs 14.5%, p=0.000) in group A. During the phases II, IR (11.8% vs 10.6%) and CPR (27.6% vs 27.3%) show no differences between two groups.
CONCLUSIONS
In FET cycles, IR and CPR are increased significantly by the change of dosage and timing of progesterone administraton. And the timing is considered to be more important factor because the dosage of progesterone did not affect implantation window in previous studies. Therefore, we suggest that progesterone administration in FET cycle should begin from one day prior to PN stage embryo thawing and three days prior to 6-8 cell stage embryo thawing.

Keyword

Progesterone; Frozen-thawed embryo transfer; Implantation rate; Clinical pregnancy rate

MeSH Terms

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Down-Regulation
Embryo Transfer*
Embryonic Structures*
Estradiol
Female
Humans
Menstrual Cycle
Pregnancy Rate*
Pregnancy*
Progesterone*
Prospective Studies
Retrospective Studies
Ultrasonography
Estradiol
Progesterone
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