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Table 2 Characteristics of patient and blastocyst morphology divided by clinical pregnancy

From: Blastocoele expansion: an important parameter for predicting clinical success pregnancy after frozen-warmed blastocysts transfer

Variable

Clinical pregnancy (n = 434)

Non-clinical pregnancy (n = 720)

P-value

Female age(y)

30.68 ± 5.25

31.39 ± 5.70

0.034

Duration of infertility(y)

5.77 ± 2.94

5.63 ± 3.24

0.731

Type of infertility

 Primary infertility

215(49.5%)

303(42.1%)

 

 Secondary infertility

219(50.5%)

417(57.9%)

0.140

No. of early cycles

2.66 ± 1.04

2.64 ± 1.07

0.794

Protocol of FET

 NC-FET

154(35.5%)

240(33.3%)

 

 HRT-FET

220(50.7%)

407(56.5%)

 OI-FET

20(4.6%)

31(4.3%)

GnRH-a + HRT-FET

40(9.2%)

42(5.8%)

0.090

No. of blastocyst transferred

1.34 ± 0.48

1.39 ± 0.49

0.121

Endometrial thickness (mm)

9.65 ± 1.63

9.28 ± 1.64

0.000

Endometrial pattern

 A

123(28.3%)

187(26.0%)

 

 B

280(64.5%)

479(66.5%)

 C

31(7.1%)

54(7.5%)

0.677

Blastocoele expansion

3.69 ± 0.68

3.53 ± 0.78

0.000

 1

5(0.9%)a,b,c,d

16(1.6%) a,b,c,d

 

 2

21(3.6%)c,d

66(6.6%) c,d

 3

156(26.8%)b,d

345(34.5%) b,d

 4

373(64.0%)a

534(53.4%) a

 5

24(4.1%)a,b,c,d

28(2.8%) a,b,c,d

 6

4(0.7%)a,b,c,d

11(1.1%) a,b,c,d

ICM grade

 A

83(14.2%)

127(12.7%)

 

 B

445(76.3%)

785(78.5%)

 C

55(9.4%)

88(8.8%)

0.594

TE grade

 A

96(16.5%)

148(14.8%)

 

 B

416(71.4%)

694(69.4%)

 C

71(12.2%)

158(15.8%)

0.122

  1. Variables were present as mean ± SD, % or n
  2. ICM inner cell mass, TE trophectoderm
  3. For blastocoele expansion evaluation, groups (in the same columns) with the same letters have no significantly difference