Effect of Acupuncture on Anti Mullerian Hormone and Assisted Reproduction Outcome in PCOS Patients Undergoing IVF

Amina Altutunji

Status: Completed

Conditions: PCOS

Treatments: Device: Acupuncture(Hwato®)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01778621

MINA-1978

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acupuncture at follicular phase of the cycle may improve the pregnancy rate. This study aims to compare assisted reproduction outcome between two groups of PCOS patients underwent IVF, one group received acupuncture and other group without acupuncture.

Full description

Follicular phase acupuncture applied for PCOS patients underwent IVF to evaluate the effect of acupuncture on anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) and the effect on assisted reproduction outcome. It applied at certain acupoints according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria::

• PCOS patients with patent one or two fallopian tubes, normal uterine cavity and partners with normal semen parameters.
• infertility
• 20-40 years
• IVF treatment -

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with disorders that have the similar clinical presentation
• closed both tubes
• abnormal semen parameters
• intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

Acupuncture (Hwato®)

Experimental group

Description:

30-40 minutes acupuncture at certain acupoints that chosen according to traditional Chinese medicine and included LIV3,SP6,SP8,ST36,SP10,ST29,LI14,Ren 04;starting at follicular phase of the cycle till 2 days before oocyte picked up.

Treatment:

Device: Acupuncture(Hwato®)

No acupuncture

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was done for this group of patients.