Abstract
Purpose
In this study, we estimated the effect of blastocoele expansion, ICM and TE quality after warming and culture on the rates of clinical pregnancy, live birth and miscarriage in vitrified-warmed single-blastocyst transfer cycle in a Chinese population.
Methods
A retrospective analysis of 263 cycles of vitrified-warmed single-blastocyst transfers was performed.
Results
The blastocysts with higher TE grade significantly increased the rates of clinical pregnancy (OR = 0.59, 95 % CI, 0.35–0.99, P = 0.045, grade (A + B) vs grade C) and live birth (OR = 0.55, 95 % CI, 0.32–0.94, P = 0.029, grade (A + B) vs grade C). And the association between TE grade and the rate of live birth didn’t change after the number of repeated cycles was adjusted (OR = 0.55, 95 % CI, 0.32–0.95, P = 0.033, grade (A + B) vs grade C). The number of repeated cycles was a confounding factor significantly different between the live birth and no live birth groups. By contrast, neither blastocoele expansion nor inner cell mass was statistically related to the rates of clinical pregnancy, live birth and miscarriage.
Conclusions
Our data firstly provided the evidence that TE grading, but not ICM grading, was significantly associated with the clinical pregnancy rate and live birth rate in vitrified-warmed blastocyst transfer cycles in a Chinese population. TE morphology may help predict outcomes of pregnancy in single-blastocyst transfer.
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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 81100420 and 81270701), the Foundation of Nanjing Medical University (grant no. 2011NJMU210), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (grant no. BK2012520) and Nanjing Medical Science and Technique Development Foundation (2010NJMU030).
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Capsule This study focused on blastocysts morphology and outcomes of pregnancy. Two hundred sixty three cycles of vitrified-warmed single-blastocyst transfers were performed. We found that the blastocysts with higher TE grade increased the rates of clinical pregnancy and live birth.
Xiaojiao Chen and Junqiang Zhang contributed equally.
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Chen, X., Zhang, J., Wu, X. et al. Trophectoderm morphology predicts outcomes of pregnancy in vitrified-warmed single-blastocyst transfer cycle in a Chinese population. J Assist Reprod Genet 31, 1475–1481 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-014-0317-x
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