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Nowadays, the rapid development of human assisted reproductive technology (ART) has provided many help for couples with fertility issues. Even take baby home rate has been increased dramatically in the past several decades; both clinicians and embryologists are still struggling to improve pregnancy rates. Among all the strategies that the embryologists have tried, much work has been done to find better embryo culture conditions and embryo quality evaluation system. Currently, most centers in the world, including ours, are still using conventional incubators and manual embryo scoring system. This traditional method has several limitations, such as unstable environment during culture, and embryo scores can be different judged by different embryologists. EmbryoScope® by Vitrolife is a newly developed time-lapse embryo culture and analysis system. It is user-friendly, and suited for routinely daily use. In addition, its KID Score system can help embryologist select high quality embryos quickly, which leads to an overall increase in pregnancy outcome in IVF/ICSI cycles. The aim of this prospective cohort study is to evaluate the use of EmbryoScope® in our center.
All patients included into this study are divided into three groups:
The aim is to compare IVF/ICSI outcomes, such as pregnancy outcome, fertilization rate, cleavage rate, high quality embryo rate, blastocyst formation rate, among these three groups.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Time-lapse-Auto | All embryos are cultured in EmbryoScope®; embryo scores are evaluated on day 3 by KID Score system. |
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| Time-lapse-Manual | All embryos are cultured in EmbryoScope®; embryo scores are evaluated on day 3 by embryologist. |
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| Conventional Group | All embryos are cultured in our daily used incubators; embryo scores are evaluated on day 3 by embryologist. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| EmbryoScope® | Device | The intervention is EmbryoScope® versus conventional incubators. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Clinical pregnancy rate | 5 weeks after embryo transfer, gestational sac with fetal heart present inside uterus | 5 weeks after embryo transfer |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 2 pronucleus (2PN) fertilization rate | Number of 2PN/Matured oocytes | 48 hours after oocyte retrieved day |
| Blastocyst formation rate | Number of Blastocysts/Number of day 3 embryos cultured to blastocyst |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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All embyros are from women undergoing IVF/ICSI in our center.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Haixia Jin, M.D. | Contact | 86-13523488589 | jhxgl@126.com | |
| Zhiqin Bu, M.D. | Contact | 86-15981978863 | rmczzu@126.com |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Reproductive Medical Center, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University | Recruiting | Zhengzhou | Henan | 450052 | China |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27553622 | Background | Wu YG, Lazzaroni-Tealdi E, Wang Q, Zhang L, Barad DH, Kushnir VA, Darmon SK, Albertini DF, Gleicher N. Different effectiveness of closed embryo culture system with time-lapse imaging (EmbryoScope(TM)) in comparison to standard manual embryology in good and poor prognosis patients: a prospectively randomized pilot study. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2016 Aug 24;14(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12958-016-0181-x. | |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D020669 | Fetoscopes |
| ID | Term |
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| D019723 | Endoscopes |
| D019719 | Diagnostic Equipment |
| D004864 | Equipment and Supplies |
| D013523 | Surgical Equipment |
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| 6 days after oocyte retrieved day |
| High quality embryo rate | High quality embryos that deserve to be transferred or cryopreserved/ Clevaged embryos in total | 72 hours after oocyte retrieved day |
| Background |
| Lazzaroni-Tealdi E, Barad DH, Albertini DF, Yu Y, Kushnir VA, Russell H, Wu YG, Gleicher N. Oocyte Scoring Enhances Embryo-Scoring in Predicting Pregnancy Chances with IVF Where It Counts Most. PLoS One. 2015 Dec 2;10(12):e0143632. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143632. eCollection 2015. |