Patients' attitudes and preferences towards a freeze-all strategy in ART treatment

Human Reproduction
Sacha StormlundAnja Pinborg

Abstract

What are the attitudes towards different aspects of a freeze-all strategy and elective frozen embryo transfer (eFET) in comparison with fresh embryo transfer in assisted reproductive technology treatment among female and male patients before and after their first ART treatment cycle in a public health care setting? Despite concerns about the delay in embryo transfer associated with eFET, nearly 60% of the participants were in favor of eFET compared with fresh embryo transfer assuming that the clinical pregnancy rate was equivalent. Vitrification and blastocyst transfer have considerably improved success rates after FET with ongoing pregnancy rates in frozen cycles approaching those seen in fresh treatment cycles. Furthermore, the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is essentially eliminated in FET cycles, and FET may be beneficial to the endometrial and fetal development because a hormonal environment mirroring the natural cycle is enabled. However, the freeze-all strategy is not yet implemented as standard care. One reason is the presumption of negative patient attitudes towards a freeze-all embryo strategy. So far, no data regarding patients' attitudes on a freeze-all strategy have been published. This study was ...Continue Reading

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Dec 6, 2019·Human Reproduction·Christophe BlockeelAnja Pinborg
Mar 20, 2020·Gynecological Endocrinology : the Official Journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology·Barbara LawrenzHuman M Fatemi
Mar 4, 2020·Human Reproduction Open·C De GeyterUNKNOWN European IVF-monitoring Consortium (EIM) for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
Jan 27, 2021·Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology·Jui-Chun ChangMing-Jer Chen
Feb 18, 2021·Human Reproduction Update·Sara J BergenheimAnja Pinborg
Jan 2, 2021·Reproductive Biomedicine Online·Mathilde BourdonPietro Santulli
Mar 7, 2021·Human Fertility : Journal of the British Fertility Society·Randi SylvestAnja Pinborg
Sep 23, 2021·Human Reproduction·Baydaa AbdulrahimAbha Maheshwari

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