Oral Estradiol Valerate Versus Oral Contraceptive Pill in Invitro Fertilization Patients

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.

Timeline

Start

2012-01

Primary completion

2012-05

Completion

2013-02

Publications

• Hauzman EE, Zapata A, Bermejo A, Iglesias C, Pellicer A, Garcia-Velasco JA. Cycle scheduling for in vitro fertilization with oral contraceptive pills versus oral estradiol valerate: a randomized, controlled trial. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2013 Sep 28;11:96. doi: 10.1186/1477-7827-11-96.

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