Electroacupuncture for Diminished Ovarian Reserve

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Diminished ovarian reserve (DOR)is a disease can not be cured. Medicine for DOR includes dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), hormone replacement therapy (HRT), immunosuppressive agents and alternative therapy, etc. Electroacupuncture (EA) can help patients regain regular menses, increase the estradiol (E2) level and decrease the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and decrease FSH/luteotropic (LH) ratio. In this cohort study, we aim to observe the effect of EA versus other therapies for DOR.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age younger than 40 yr

• 10IU/L ≤ FSH ≤ 40IU/L

• Volunteer to join the research and give the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• A history of ovariectomy, receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy or irradiation

• Reproductive system infection or tumor

• Autoimmune disease

• Amenorrhea due to reproduction abnormality or pregnancy

• Patients can not adhere to treatment due to personal situation

• Patients have taken immunosuppressive agents in past 6 months

• receive treatment for less than 1 week before withdrawal