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[No improvement in live birth rate after luteal phase support by GnRH agonist]
B Le Levreur1, S Frantz1, M Lambert1
1Service de gynécologie et de médecine de la reproduction, CHU de Bordeaux, centre Aliénor d'Aquitaine, place Amélie-Raba-Léon, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France.
Objectives:
To evaluate the impact of adding a GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) in luteal phase support (LPS) on live birth rates in IVF/ICSI in antagonist protocols.
Methods:
In total, 341 IVF/ICSI attempts are analyzed in this retrospective study. Patients were divided into two groups: A f: LPS with progesterone alone (179 attempts) between March 2019 and May 2020; B: LPS with progesterone and an injection of triptorelin (GnRH-a) 0.1mg 6 days after oocyte retrieval (162 attempts) between June 2020 and June 2021. The primary outcome was live birth rate. The secondary outcomes were miscarriage rate, pregnancy rate and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome rate.
Results:
The baseline characteristic are identical between the two groups except the infertility duration (longer in the group B). There was no significant difference between the two groups in live birth rate (24.1% versus 21.2%), pregnancy rate (33.3% versus 28.1%), miscarriage rate (4.9% versus 3.4%) and no increase the SHSO rate. The multivariate regression analysis after adjustment for age, ovarian reserve and infertility duration did not reveal a significant difference in live birth rate between the two groups.
Conclusion:
In this study, the results showed no statistically significant association with the single injection of a GnRH-a in addition to progesterone on live birth rate in luteal phase support.
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