Journal
JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 1429-1435Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-023-02818-8
Keywords
High humidity culture; Ongoing pregnancy; Time lapse; Embryo culture
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This study investigated whether high relative humidity conditions, when using a time-lapse system and sequential culture media, are beneficial to embryo culture and improve ongoing pregnancy rates. The results suggest that high relative humidity conditions do not improve the rate of ongoing pregnancy and several embryological outcomes, under the conditions used in this study.
PurposeTo investigate whether high relative humidity conditions (HC), when using a time-lapse system (TLS) with sequential culture media, are beneficial to embryo culture, improving ongoing pregnancy rates.MethodsWe included patients undergoing their first ICSI cycle treatment from April 2021 to May 2022. Patients assigned to dry conditions (DC) or HC were 278 and 218, respectively. We used a GERI TLS, three chambers configured in humidity conditions and three in dry conditions. The effect of HC on ongoing pregnancy rate was assessed by the propensity matched sample, to reduce potential differences between women undergoing either HC or DC and reduce biased estimation of treatment effect.ResultAfter adjusting for several confounding variables and applying the propensity score (PS), no significant differences were observed in the rates of normal (2PN) and abnormal (1PN and 3PN) fertilization, blastulation, top-quality blastocysts, frozen blastocysts, ongoing pregnancies, and miscarriages. The 2-cell (t2) and 4-cell (t4) stages and cell divisions between such stages occurred earlier and were more synchronous in the in DC.ConclusionThese results suggest that HC conditions do not improve the rate of ongoing pregnancy and several embryological outcomes, under the conditions used in this study based on a time-lapse system and sequential culture with day 3 medium change-over.
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