Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF ) Freely available
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (13)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Thum, M.Y.
Right arrow Articles by Abdalla, H.I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Thum, M.Y.
Right arrow Articles by Abdalla, H.I.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 11, 2363-2367, November 2003
© 2003 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Does egg-sharing compromise the chance of donors or recipients achieving a live birth?

M.Y. Thum1, A. Gafar, M. Wren, R. Faris, B. Ogunyemi, L. Korea, L. Scott and H.I. Abdalla

Lister Fertility Clinic, Chelsea Bridge Road, London SW1W 8RH, UK

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. e-mail: meenyau{at}hotmail.com

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the effect of egg-sharing and the outcome of assisted reproductive treatment (ART) in standard IVF/ICSI patients, egg-sharing donors and egg-sharing recipients. METHODS: Descriptive cohort study to evaluate 276 egg-sharing cycles involving 192 egg-sharers, 274 recipient cycles receiving eggs from egg-sharers and 1098 non-egg-sharing standard IVF/ICSI cycles from January 1998 to December 2002. Patients were divided into three groups: group A, egg-sharers; group B, non-egg-sharers, age <36 years, FSH <10 IU/l, BMI <30 kg/m2; and group C, egg-sharing recipients, all ages. Duration and amount of gonadotrophin required to achieve follicular maturity, number of eggs collected and donated, fertilization rate, pregnancy rates and live birth rates were compared between donor, recipient and standard IVF/ICSI patients. The {chi}2 test was used to test for statistical significance (P < 0.05). RESULTS: There was no significant difference in pregnancy rate and live birth rate of egg-sharers, group A (42.0%, 33.0%), non-egg-sharers, group B (40.0%, 30.9%) and recipients, group C (41.4%, 28.6%). The number of oocytes collected, number of mature follicles and amount of gonadotrophin used was not significantly different between the two groups (A and B). The average number of embryos transferred and the mean number of eggs allocated between egg-sharers and recipients was not statistically different. CONCLUSION: Egg-sharing does not compromise the chance of achieving a pregnancy or live birth for the egg-sharer or the recipient as compared to standard IVF/ICSI patients. The egg-sharers were not at a higher potential risk of ovarian stimulation syndrome and there was no imbalance of egg allocation.

Key words: egg donation/egg-sharing/IVF outcome/pregnancy rate


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Hum ReprodHome page
C. Wang, M.-Y. Tsai, M.-H. Lee, S.-Y. Huang, C.-H. Kao, H.-N. Ho, and C. K. Hsiao
Maximum number of live births per donor in artificial insemination
Hum. Reprod., May 1, 2007; 22(5): 1363 - 1372.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Hum ReprodHome page
A. P. Ferraretti, G. Pennings, L. Gianaroli, and M. C. Magli
Semen donor recruitment in an oocyte donation programme
Hum. Reprod., October 1, 2006; 21(10): 2482 - 2485.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Hum ReprodHome page
B. C. Heng
Egg-sharing in return for subsidized fertility treatment: a possible solution for therapeutic cloning?
Hum. Reprod., November 1, 2005; 20(11): 3258 - 3258.
[Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.