Overview

Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbs in the Freeze-all IVF Cycle

Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-12-30
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
Female
Summary
In the early stage, the preliminary study found that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) intervention aimed at Nourishing kidney and regulating blood circulation in freeze-all IVF cycles can improve the clinical pregnancy rate. In order to further study the role of TCM in improving the pregnancy outcome of IVF-ET in infertility. A randomized controlled clinical trial will be used in this study. 90 infertile patients are randomly divided into two groups. The control group will be treated with conventional modern medicine, and the treatment group will be treated with traditional Chinese herbs on the basis of conventional modern medicine. The intervention starts from the 5th day of the menstrual cycle and lasts until the day before IVF-ET. After the transplantation, the TCM treatment continues for 14 days. The number of oocytes, antral follicles, AMH, serum FSH, and clinical pregnancy rate will be observed to evaluate the effect of TCM herbs on the improvement of pregnancy outcomes. In addition, all the participants will be asked to complete the self-evaluation of the anxiety/depression scale on the 7th day of the menstrual cycle, before and after transplantation, to analyze the emotional changes of the subjects during the study. The study will also observe the safety and health economic indicators of TCM treatment, so as to improve the overall efficacy of TCM Combined Application in assisted reproductive technology in the future.
Phase:
Phase 3
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Peking University Third Hospital
Treatments:
Cetrorelix
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

1. Meet the diagnostic criteria for infertility.

2. Meet the criteria for identifying kidney deficiency in TCM.

3. Patients who Planning to undergo IVF-ET for pregnancy in our center, Age ≤40 years and
≥25 years.

4. Previous embryo transfer failure ≥ 2 times.

5. Menstrual cycle is basically normal, and normal ovulation has been monitored in the
past.

6. There were more than 1 blastocyst /more than 2 high-quality embryos with more than 6
cells on day 3/more than 2 high-quality embryos with more than 4 cells on day 2.

7. Consent to participate in this clinical trial and sign an informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with endometritis, acute pelvic inflammatory disease, mycotic vaginitis,
bacterial vaginitis, adnexitis or other systemic infections.

2. It has been confirmed that there are obvious and serious other organic lesions in the
reproductive organs.

3. Patients with allergic constitution

4. Infertility caused by genetic factors

5. Patients with serious primary diseases such as cardio cerebrovascular, kidney, liver
and hematopoietic system and psychosis

6. A person who is unable to cooperate (such as a combination of neurological or mental
illness, or a reluctance to cooperate)

7. The endometrial thickness on the day of hCG was less than 6 mm or the endometrial
morphology on the day of hCG was type C

8. Those who did not agree to participate in the study