Parental Project and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (ParentIOP)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility; Primary Ovarian Insufficiency

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05310617

APHP220208

Details and patient eligibility

About

One of the main repercussions of POI is infertility. When the diagnosis of POI is announced, the question of fertility is addressed and the patient is often directed towards egg donation or adoption when she has a parental project. However, there are cases of spontaneous pregnancies after diagnosis.

This study was conducted to determine the proportion of patients with POI who were able to realize a parental project after diagnosis in the long term and by what means.

Full description

The investigators propose to study patients with POI who were hospitalized in the endocrinology and reproductive medicine department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital for the etiological assessment of ovarian failure and its consequences between December 31, 1982 and January 12, 2021. The investigators will only include patients who were admitted to the day hospital because we have a complete etiological workup and a complete history for them, which allows investigators to describe the population properly. The patients must be over 18 years old at the time of the survey in order to be able to evaluate the presence of a parental project only in adult patients.

Patients for whom there is no valid contact information in the computer file (postal address or valid email address or cell phone number) or whose last consultation was more than 2 years ago will be excluded. Patients with Turner syndrome will be excluded because they may have comorbidities, particularly cardiac, that contraindicate pregnancy. Patients with POI secondary to oncological treatments (gonadotoxic chemotherapy or pelvic radiotherapy) will also be excluded because of the uncertain prognosis and the contraindications to pregnancy in case of hormone-dependent tumors.

Enrollment: 324 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients at least 18 years old at the time of the survey
• Patients with a diagnosis of PIO according to the current definition: cycle disturbances of more than 4 months and FSH > 25 on 2 measurements one month apart
• Patients having been hospitalized in day hospital (HDJ) in the endocrinology and reproductive medicine department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital for the etiological assessment of ovarian insufficiency and its repercussions between December 31, 1982 and January 12, 2021
• Valid contact information available: address, cell phone, e-mail
• Patients who have been informed and do not object to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Turner syndrome
• POI secondary to oncology treatments (chemotherapy, pelvic radiotherapy)
• Opposition to participating in the study