Impact of Culture Conditions on the Embryo Quality

University Hospital, Gasthuisberg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Embryo Development

Treatments: Procedure: Mini incubator; Procedure: 5% oxygen; Procedure: 20% oxygen; Procedure: Standard incubator

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01767805

ML4563

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare different culture conditions. The effect of the type of incubator (standard versus mini-incubator) and the effect of the oxygen concentration (5% versus 20%) will be evaluated on the embryo quality

Enrollment: 790 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 3 days old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• embryos of patients younger than 36 years old

Exclusion criteria

• embryos of patients older than 36 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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790 participants in 2 patient groups

Type of incubator

Other group

Description:

Embryos are cultured in a standard incubator or a mini-incubator

Treatment:

Procedure: Mini incubator

Procedure: Standard incubator

Oxygen concentration

Other group

Description:

Embryos are cultured in an incubator with a gas mixture with 20% oxygen or with 5% oxygen

Treatment:

Procedure: 20% oxygen

Procedure: 5% oxygen