Mucus Removal Before Embryo Transfer

Launched by FUNDACION DEXEUS · Sep 21, 2017

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ClinConnect Summary

ET involves placing the embryo(s) obtained before assisted reproduction technology (ART) into the uterus via a catheter advanced through the cervical canal. Yet this is the final, and in some respects the most critical, process in the sequential events that encompass an ART cycle. If an embryo cannot be delivered to the uterine cavity atraumatically and in a location for optimal implantation, the steps of ovarian hyperstimulation, oocyte retrieval, embryo culture, and embryo selection will have no benefit. Contamination of the catheter with blood may be a marker for difficult ET and has als...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • IVF or OD patients with supernumerary embryos (oocyte's age will be considered as patient's age).
• • Normal transvaginal ultrasound at screening, without evidence of clinically significant abnormality consistent with finding adequate for ART with respect to uterus and adnexa
• • Single embryo transfer
• • Embryo transfer at the blastocyst stage
• • Embryo with a morphological classification of ≥3BB
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and/or screening