Transvaginal Ultrasonography Guided Embryo Transfer

Kasr El Aini Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility, Female

Treatments: Procedure: transabdominal ultrasound guided embryo transfer; Procedure: transvaginal ultrasound guided embryo transfer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03473028

2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

to evaluate the value of using transvaginal ultrasound guided embryo transfer in obese patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.

Full description

The 800 participants with body mass index more than 30kg/m2 were randomly allocated to two groups of equal size using an automated web-based randomization system. The first group 400 patient undergoing the transabdominal-guided embryo transfer, the second group 400 patient undergoing transvaginal-guided embryo transfer.

Enrollment: 800 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI more than 35, good ovarian reserve, unexplained infertility more than 3 years.

Exclusion criteria

• severe male factor of infertility,uterine factor of infertility excluded by ultrasonography and hysteroscopy ,ovarian endometrioma or patients with poly cystic ovary syndrome, obesity caused by abnormal endocrine function (thyroid or adrenal disorder)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 2 patient groups

transabdominal ultrasound

Active Comparator group

Description:

400 obese female undergo transabdominal ultrasound guided embryo transfer

Treatment:

Procedure: transabdominal ultrasound guided embryo transfer

transvaginal group

Active Comparator group

Description:

400 obese female undergo transvaginal ultrasound guided embryo transfer

Treatment:

Procedure: transvaginal ultrasound guided embryo transfer