Human Reproduction, Vol. 16, No. 7, 1403-1408,
July 2001
© 2001 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Fresh embryo transfer is more effective than frozen for donor oocyte recipients but not for donors
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Camden, NJ, USA
BACKGROUND: Recipients of donor oocytes need to be synchronized to the donor's cycle if fresh embryos are to be transferred on the cycle of oocyte retrieval. It would be much easier to merely retrieve the oocytes from the donor, fertilize the oocytes with the recipient's male partner's spermatozoa, cryopreserve the embryos, then transfer on an oestrogen/progesterone treatment programme. METHODS: The IVF outcomes of all patients enrolled in a shared oocyte programme from January 1997 to June 1999 were reviewed. Pregnancy and implantation rates were computed and statistically analysed. RESULTS: There was a significantly higher clinical pregnancy rate for recipients who had a fresh embryo transfer compared with recipients whose first embryo transfer consisted of frozen/thawed embryos (63.4 versus 43.6%). CONCLUSIONS: Conception is more likely after fresh than frozen embryo transfer with recipients but is similar to donor conception rates. If a uterine defect, per se, even without the use of the controlled ovarian stimulation regimen, could explain the difference between fresh pregnancy and implantation rates in donors versus recipients, then these same differences would have been seen when comparing frozen transfers, but they were, in fact, similar.
Key words: frozen embryo transfer/implantation rates/shared oocyte
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