P-586 Adding letrozole to gonadotropins during ovarian stimulation for IVF results in a similar cumulative live birth rate at lower costs following a failed IVF cycle
Abstract Study question Following a failed IVF cycle, does adding letrozole for the first 5 days of a repeated cycle have any advantage versus repeating the same protocol? Summary answer Following a failed IVF cycle, letrozole supplementation during ovarian stimulation for IVF results in a similar c...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Human reproduction (Oxford) 2023-06, Vol.38 (Supplement_1) |
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Study question
Following a failed IVF cycle, does adding letrozole for the first 5 days of a repeated cycle have any advantage versus repeating the same protocol?
Summary answer
Following a failed IVF cycle, letrozole supplementation during ovarian stimulation for IVF results in a similar cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) with 22% less gonadotropins.
What is known already
Letrozole results in an increase of intraovarian androgen concentration, which augments follicular stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor expression on granulosa cells and follicular responsiveness to exogenous gonadotropins. Letrozole co-treatment with gonadotropins during controlled ovarian stimulation (COH) for IVF has been investigated mainly in poor and normo-responders with conflicting clinical outcomes. This is the first and largest study that investigates the effects of adding letrozole for the first five days of COH for IVF, in GnRH antagonist cycles, to a category of patients who had a prior failed stimulated IVF cycle using the same protocol.
Study design, size, duration
This is retrospective monocentric study of 426 patients, with a prior failed stimulated IVF cycle using an antagonist protocol, who underwent a second cycle between 2012 and 2017. In those patients, we studied the clinical outcomes of doing a repeated cycle, using the same protocol with the addition of 5mg of letrozole daily in the first 5 days of the cycle (Group A, N = 213) versus doing a repeated similar cycle without letrozole (Group B, N = 213).
Participants/materials, setting, methods
Groups A and B were matched for age, body mass index, anti-mullerian hormone and infertility diagnosis. Statistical analyses were carried out using student t test, Anova and linear regression models. The primary outcome was the CLBR. Secondary outcomes included the number of mature follicles, the number of mature oocytes (MII), the number of usable embryos, clinical pregnancy rates (CPR), live birth rates (LBR) and the total dose of gonadotropins administered.
Main results and the role of chance
This is the first study that investigates the effects of co-treatment with letrozole during COH for IVF in the category of patients who had a prior failed IVF cycle. Our results show that patients who received letrozole during COH with gonadotropins, versus gonadotropins alone, had a significantly lower number of MII oocytes (7±4.6 vs 8,2±5.0; P |
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ISSN: | 0268-1161 1460-2350 |
DOI: | 10.1093/humrep/dead093.917 |