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Table 3 Clinical and laboratory characteristics of the frozen/thawed ICSI procedures

From: Effects of recombinant LH supplementation to recombinant FSH during induced ovarian stimulation in the GnRH-agonist protocol: a matched case-control study

 

Group I

(no r-H)

Group II

(r-LH)

p-value

Patients (frozen + thawed) (n)

43

40

 

Transfers (n)

51

48

 

Thawed and transferred embryos (n)

128

114

 

Implantation rate/thawed embryos

8.6%

15%

ns

Pregnancy rate

   

-per thawed embryo transfer

19.6%

31.2%

ns

-per patient

23.2%

37.5%

ns

Cumulative implantation rate (fresh + thawed)

14.7%

20.6%

0.04

Cumulative pregnancy rate (fresh+ thawed)

   

-per transfer

27.9%

33.5%

ns

-per patient

37.7%

45.9%

ns

Cumulative live births/(fresh+ thawed)

   

-per started cycle

20.2%

23.5%

ns

-per patient

28.7%

32.8%

ns

  1. ns: not significant