Oral Estradiol Valerate Versus Oral Contraceptive Pill in Invitro Fertilization Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The recent controversy regarding the use of pill for cycle planning in GnRH antagonists IVF cycle has driven the search for new ways to plan IVF cycles in order to avoid weekends or to equally distribute the workload. Recently, mid-late luteal phase oral estrogens seem to be as good as the pill. The investigators will compare OCP vs oral estrogens to plan the initiation of IVF cycles.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: IVI Madrid
• Treatments: Estradiol; Estradiol 17 beta-cypionate; Estradiol 3-benzoate; Estradiol valerate; Ethinyl Estradiol; Ethinyl estradiol, levonorgestrel drug combination; Levonorgestrel; Polyestradiol phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1st or 2nd IVF cycle

• BMI <30 kg/m2

• regular menstrual cycles

• basal FSH <10IU and E2 <60pg/mL

Exclusion Criteria:

• polycystic ovaries

• endometriosis

• previous ovarian surgery

• previous low ovarian response