Randomized Prospective Trial on the Use of Laser Assisted Hatching (LAH) for Transfer of Frozen/Thawed Embryos in Human IVF/ICSI

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status: Completed

Conditions: IVF; ICSI

Treatments: Procedure: laser assisted hatching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00561249

2007/453

Details and patient eligibility

About

At the time of transfer of frozen/thawed embryos in human IVF/ICSI, patients are randomized between study and control group.In the control group no additional intervention takes place on the embryos to be transferred,in the study group, embryos for transfer are subjected to laser assisted hatching(LAH) following the standard procedure.The LAH procedure lasts two minutes per embryo.

Enrollment: 293 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years old and above
• Female

Exclusion criteria

• No exclusion criteria, except not possible to give informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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293 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Embryos for transfer are subjected to laser assisted hatching(LAH) following the standard procedure.The LAH procedure lasts two minutes per embryo.

Treatment:

Procedure: laser assisted hatching

2

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention