New Application of Oocyte Sequential Culture and in Vitro Muturation System for Infertility Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: a Multi-center Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 3 期
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 300
- 试验地点
- 5
- 主要终点
- Clinical pregnancy rate
研究概览
简要总结
Oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM) is an artificial reproductive technologies (ART) in which cumulus-oocyte complex (COC) are collected at the immature germinal vesicle (GV) stage from unstimulated or FSH-primed ovaries and matured in vitro before fertilization. IVM has been proposed as a more patient-friendly ART alternative to conventional IVF. Contrary to IVF, IVM is the only ART method with no cases of OHSS reported. Hence, patients with PCOS represent the major target population for IVM treatment.
In clinical practice of standard IVM, COCs are aspirated from unstimulated or mildly stimulated ovaries and rapidly removed from the meiotic-inhibiting influence of the follicle and the follicular fluid. Regardless of in vitro gonadotrophin treatment, oocytes mature spontaneously in vitro, hence undergoing meiotic resumption in the absence of the usual elaborate cascade of endocrine and paracrine molecular signals that induce maturation in vivo. As such, the maturation of oocytes by standard IVM techniques is an artefact that compromises subsequent oocyte developmental competence. Numbers of studies have been proposed to improve the efficiency of IVM system. Synchronization of meiotic and cytoplasmic maturation in antral oocytes arrested at the immature GV-stage remains a major challenge and is of fundamental importance for successful fertilization. High intra-oocyte levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), is crucial to maintain the nearly fully-grown oocytes under meiotic arrest and to induce oocyte maturation. Research in animal models has indicated that a non-physiological drop of cAMP levels in the oocyte results in asynchronous nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation.
Investigators have reported the development of a novel in vitro simulated sequential oocyte maturation system. Critical to success of the approach is a pre-IVM phase that generates a rapid increase in COC cAMP levels. Secondly, the system utilizes an extended IVM phase containing sufficient FSH to drive meiotic induction in the presence of a type-3 PDE inhibitor. The high levels of cAMP in the oocyte and the induced nature of oocyte maturation mimics some of the key, newly characterized molecular signals that occur during oocyte maturation in vivo. Technical and conceptual elements were first developed using mouse, bovine and human COCs. Investigators propose a randomized clinical trial to compare a novel sequential culture system with the traditional standard oocyte IVM system for PCOS patients.
详细描述
A multi-center, prospective, randomized clinical trial will be conducted, of comparing sequential oocyte IVM system with traditional oocyte IVM system for high OHSS risk PCOS patients (AMH>5.6ng/ml). The inclusion criteria will be infertile patients diagnosed by the Chinese PCOS criteria, aged below 35 years, and without other known factors interfere reproductive or metabolic functions. 300 PCOS patients will be included and randomized into either of two groups: group A will administrate sequential oocyte IVM system and group B will administrate traditional standard oocyte IVM system. The comparison will be made between groups, and both groups are conducted with the HMG administration and embryo vitrification freezing. The primary outcome of the study is live birth rate. The embryo development and pregnancy outcomes will be followed up and compared between groups.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 35 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Women age ≤35 years;
- •AMH level ≥5.6ng/ml;
- •Women diagnosed as PCOS according to Chinese PCOS diagnosis criteria;
- •Written informed consent.
排除标准
- •Women who diagnosed as uterus abnormality, adenomyosis, submucous myoma, intrauterine adhesion;
- •Women who diagnosed as untreated hydrosalpinx;
- •Women who had underwent unilateral ovariectomy;
- •Women with medical condition that represent contraindication to assisted reproductive technology or pregnancy;
- •Women or their partner with abnormal chromosome karyotype;
- •Male partner with oligoasthenozoospermia or obstructive azoospermia;
- •Male partner whose sperm is collected by surgery;
- •Subjects are found breach the inclusion criteria, or in accordance with exclusion criteria during the test, excluded;
- •Patients request withdrawal and exit the trial because adverse events occur during the trial.
研究组 & 干预措施
sequential oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. COCs were removed from aspirated follicular fluid and transferred into HEPES-buffered collection medium. The immature oocytes will be cultured in sequential IVM medium 1 for 6 hours (37℃, 5% CO2), and removed into sequential IVM medium 2 for further cultivation. After 24 and 40 hours cultivation, the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle.
干预措施: sequential IVM system (Drug)
sequential oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. COCs were removed from aspirated follicular fluid and transferred into HEPES-buffered collection medium. The immature oocytes will be cultured in sequential IVM medium 1 for 6 hours (37℃, 5% CO2), and removed into sequential IVM medium 2 for further cultivation. After 24 and 40 hours cultivation, the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle.
干预措施: intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) (Procedure)
sequential oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. COCs were removed from aspirated follicular fluid and transferred into HEPES-buffered collection medium. The immature oocytes will be cultured in sequential IVM medium 1 for 6 hours (37℃, 5% CO2), and removed into sequential IVM medium 2 for further cultivation. After 24 and 40 hours cultivation, the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle.
干预措施: Thawed embryo transfer (TET) (Procedure)
traditional oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. On the day of ovulation, COCs were aspirated and the immature oocytes will be cultured in traditional standard oocyte IVM system (Sage). 30 and 44 hours after cultivation, the maturity of oocytes will be assessed and the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle. If biochemical pregnancy is not achieved, thawed blastocysts transfer will be performed.
干预措施: intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) (Procedure)
traditional oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. On the day of ovulation, COCs were aspirated and the immature oocytes will be cultured in traditional standard oocyte IVM system (Sage). 30 and 44 hours after cultivation, the maturity of oocytes will be assessed and the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle. If biochemical pregnancy is not achieved, thawed blastocysts transfer will be performed.
干预措施: Thawed embryo transfer (TET) (Procedure)
traditional oocyte IVM group
From day 7~9 of the menstrual cycle, 225 IU HMG (Menotrophins for Injection) per day will be administrated for 3 days. On the day of ovulation, COCs were aspirated and the immature oocytes will be cultured in traditional standard oocyte IVM system (Sage). 30 and 44 hours after cultivation, the maturity of oocytes will be assessed and the mature oocytes will be fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two of the D3 embryos (if available) which graded as top-quality embryo will be vitrified and the rest of embryos will be cultivated extendedly. Thawed embryo transfer (TET) will give preference to D3 embryos and carried out with a hormone replacement cycle. If biochemical pregnancy is not achieved, thawed blastocysts transfer will be performed.
干预措施: traditional IVM system (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Clinical pregnancy rate
时间窗: 7 weeks gestation
The fetal heart beat in an intrauterine gestational sac under ultrasound will be defined as clinical pregnancy.
次要结局
- Oocyte maturation rate(30 and 46 hours after oocyte retrieval)
- Fertilization rate(30 and 46 hours after oocyte retrieval)
- Cleavage rate(24 hours after ICSI)
- Day 3 embryo rate(72 hours after ICSI)
- Good quality embryo rate at cleavage-stage(72 hours after ICSI)
- Number of cycles with available embryo(72 hours after ICSI)
- Blastulation rate(144 hours after ICSI)
- Biochemical pregnancy rate(4 weeks gestation)
- Implantation rate(7 weeks gestation)
- Miscarriage rate (at first trimester)(28 weeks gestation in maximum)
- Cumulative pregnancy rate(1-2year)
- Preterm birth rate(1-2year)
- Newborn birth weight(1-2year)
- Neonatal complication rate(within one month after labor)
- Live birth rate(1-2year)
研究者
Yanhong Deng
doctor
Sun Yat-sen University