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Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
Main ID:  NCT02610114
Date of registration: 05/11/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Jürgen Weiss
Public title: Improvement of Cell Selection in Reproductive Techniques
Scientific title: A New Method to Improve the Selection of Zygotes in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Medicine. A Randomized Controlled Blinded Monocenter Study
Date of first enrolment: December 2015
Target sample size: 220
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02610114
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Switzerland
Contacts
Name:     Jürgen Weiss, Professor
Address: 
Telephone: +41 41 205 36 08
Email: juergen.weiss@luks.ch
Affiliation: 
Name:     Jürgen Weiss, Professor
Address: 
Telephone: +41 41 205 36 06
Email: juergen.weiss@luks.ch
Affiliation: 
Name:     Jürgen Weiss, Professor
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Luzerner Kantonsspital, Neue Frauenklinik
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria (for both male and female, couples):

- Woman with age 18 years or older

- Man with age 18 years or older

- Couples who could gain fertilized cells after In vitro fertilization (IVF) or
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) after hormonal stimulation due to sterility
treatments

- Couples presenting negative blood samples of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and
Hepatitis B/C

- Signed routine contracts between hospital and patient wanting assisted reproductive
technology (ART)

- Signed informed study consent

- Expectation of life more than 18 years

- No medical contraindication to become pregnant (female)

- Routine criteria for assisted reproductive techniques

Exclusion criteria (for female):

- Poor health status acc. to Investigator's judgement

- Expectation of life below 18 years

- Risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

- Avital cells (cells that do not further develop or die)

- Treatment due to fertility preservation, e.g. in case of cancer

- Problems after stimulation and follicle puncture

- Endometrial pathologies like polyps, submucous fibroids, etc.

- Any preceding stimulation cycle with endometrial thickness below 6mm

- Less than 4 fertilized oocytes

- Patient (and partner) wishes single embryo Transfer

- Failure to become pregnant with new zygote selection method



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Infertility
Intervention(s)
Other: Z-Score
Other: Z-Score and computer algorithm
Primary Outcome(s)
Clinical pregnancy [Time Frame: min. 4 weeks after embryo transfer]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Life Birth [Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 40 weeks after last menstrual period]
Ongoing clinical pregnancy [Time Frame: min. 9 weeks after embryo transfer]
Secondary ID(s)
REPROLUKS 002
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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