1. Elevated early follicular progesterone levels and in vitro fertilization outcomes: a prospective intervention study and meta-analysis
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Arie Verhoeff, Petrus F.M. van der Heijden, H.J. Verburg, Grada C. van den Dool-Maasland, Frank J.M. Broekmans, O. Hamdine, G.J.E. Oosterhuis, Bart C.J.M. Fauser, Nick S. Macklon, Caspar A.G. Holleboom, B. J. Cohlen, Joop S.E. Laven, A. Blankhart, Rob E. Bernardus, Marinus J.C. Eijkemans, Cornelis B. Lambalk, Peter A. van Dop, Obstetrics and gynaecology, ICaR - Ischemia and repair, Public Health, and Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Pregnancy Rate ,medicine.medical_treatment ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Fertilization in Vitro ,Intracytoplasmic sperm injection ,law.invention ,Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone ,Hormone Antagonists ,Randomized controlled trial ,Ovarian Follicle ,Ovulation Induction ,law ,Pregnancy ,Internal medicine ,Follicular phase ,medicine ,GnRH antagonist ,Humans ,Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic ,Menstrual cycle ,Progesterone ,media_common ,Netherlands ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,In vitro fertilisation ,business.industry ,Clinical outcome ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Antagonist ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Fertility Agents, Female ,Recombinant Proteins ,Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 17] ,Up-Regulation ,Endocrinology ,Treatment Outcome ,Reproductive Medicine ,IVF ,Infertility ,Female ,Follicle Stimulating Hormone ,business ,progesterone levels ,Biomarkers ,Hormone - Abstract
Item does not contain fulltext OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of elevated early follicular progesterone (P) levels in gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist cycles on clinical outcome using prospective data in combination with a systematic review and meta-analysis. DESIGN: Nested study within a multicenter randomized controlled trial and a systematic review and meta-analysis. SETTING: Reproductive medicine center in an university hospital. PATIENT(S): 158 in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF-ICSI) patients. INTERVENTION(S): Recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) (150-225 IU) administered daily from cycle day 2 onward; GnRH antagonist treatment randomly started on cycle day 2 or 6; assignment into two groups according to P level on cycle day 2: normal or elevated (>4.77 nmol/L or >1.5 ng/mL, respectively). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Ongoing pregnancy rate (OPR) per started cycle. RESULT(S): The incidence of elevated P was 13.3%. A non-statistically-significant difference in OPR was present between the normal and elevated P groups (27.0% vs. 19.0%). No differential impact of early or late GnRH antagonist initiation on the effect of elevated or normal P on OPR was observed. A systematic search of Medline and EMBASE from 1972-2013 was performed to identify studies analyzing elevated early P levels in GnRH antagonists. The meta-analysis (n=1,052) demonstrated that elevated P levels statistically significantly decreased the OPR with 15% (95% CI -23, -7 %). Heterogeneity across the studies, presumably based on varying protocols, may have modulated the effect of elevated P. CONCLUSION(S): From the present meta-analysis it appears that early elevated P levels are associated with a lower OPR in GnRH antagonists. The incidence of such a condition, however, is low. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT00866034.
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- 2014
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