NCT03981120

The Effect of Acupuncture on Pregnancy Rates in Women Undergoing in Vitro Fertilization With Preimplantation Genetic Screening

Status unknown NA Last updated 6 September 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Laser and Traditional Acupuncture in Infertility in 100 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

15 September 2019

Primary endpoint
1 November 2019

1 January 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of British Columbia
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	triple
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	100
Start date	15 September 2019
Primary completion	1 November 2019
Estimated completion	1 January 2020

Drugs / interventions tested

• Laser and Traditional Acupuncture

Conditions studied

• Infertility — all drugs for Infertility →
• Aneuploidy — all drugs for Aneuploidy →

Sponsor

University of British Columbia

Who can join

Adults 18 to 40, any sex, with Infertility or Aneuploidy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

While IVF offers an effective treatment for infertility, a significant proportion of IVF cycles still result in failed implantation and early miscarriage. As such, new therapies that improve pregnancy outcomes are highly desirable. Both traditional and laser acupuncture during the IVF cycle has become a popular option for women looking to improve their pregnancy rates. However, studies looking to understand the effects of acupuncture on IVF have demonstrated contradicting results. While some studies show an improvement in pregnancy rates in women undergoing IVF with traditional acupuncture treatment, other studies show no difference. Moreover, there are few studies exploring the role of laser and traditional acupuncture in IVF cycles and the studies done thus far have shown no change in pregnancy rates. However, there have been no studies to-date that have looked at women who are receiving IVF for embryos with normal genetics. This is important because embryos with abnormal genetics are a major reason for failed implantation and miscarriage, which can make the effects of acupuncture on pregnancy rates difficult to evaluate. This study is a pilot study looking to better understand the role of laser and traditional acupuncture as a supplemental treatment in women undergoing euploid (normal genetics) embryo transfer. This is the first study to include only genetically normal embryos, which may help to better understand the effects of laser and traditional acupuncture on IVF outcomes.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.