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Human Blastocyst Biopsy and Vitrification
Published on: July 26, 2019
Blastocoele expansion degree predicts live birth after single blastocyst transfer for fresh and vitrified/warmed
Qing-Yun Du1, En-Yin Wang1, Yan Huang1
1Reproductive Medical Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
Objective:
To evaluate the independent effects of the degree of blastocoele expansion and re-expansion and the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE) grades on predicting live birth after fresh and vitrified/warmed single blastocyst transfer.
Design:
Retrospective study.
Setting:
Reproductive medical center.
Patient(S):
Women undergoing 844 fresh and 370 vitrified/warmed single blastocyst transfer cycles.
Intervention(S):
None.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Live-birth rate correlated with blastocyst morphology parameters by logistic regression analysis and Spearman correlations analysis.
Result(S):
The degree of blastocoele expansion and re-expansion was the only blastocyst morphology parameter that exhibited a significant ability to predict live birth in both fresh and vitrified/warmed single blastocyst transfer cycles respectively by multivariate logistic regression and Spearman correlations analysis. Although the ICM grade was significantly related to live birth in fresh cycles according to the univariate model, its effect was not maintained in the multivariate logistic analysis. In vitrified/warmed cycles, neither ICM nor TE grade was correlated with live birth by logistic regression analysis.
Conclusion(S):
This study is the first to confirm that the degree of blastocoele expansion and re-expansion is a better predictor of live birth after both fresh and vitrified/warmed single blastocyst transfer cycles than ICM or TE grade.
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