Ultrasound Guided Embryo Transfer: Abdominal Versus Transvaginal, a RCT

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility; in Vitro Fertilization

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00682071

Funding # 133-FZ71

HSC# 2003-311 (UW)

IRB# 2003-311 (UW)

2003-311

Grant: OB/GYN R&D

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ultrasound (US) guided embryo transfer (ET) appears to improve pregnancy outcomes in IVF-ET. Most reports are done using a transabdominal (TAS) approach, in contrast to a transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) which does not require a full bladder. We sought to determine if either approach was better with respect to clinical outcomes.

Enrollment: 224 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients undergoing assisted reproductive cycles including autologous IVF, oocyte donation, and frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles

Exclusion criteria

• Cases of severe ovarian hyper-stimulation requiring embryo cryopreservation and gestational surrogate cycles

Trial design

224 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

transabdominal ultrasound (TAS) guided embryo transfer

2

Description:

transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) guided embryo transfer