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ArticleReproductive medicine and biology

The addition of dydrogesterone improves the outcomes of pregnant women with low progesterone levels when receiving vaginal progesterone alone as luteal support in HRT-FET cycles.

Rena Toriumi, Michiharu Horikawa, Chie Sato, Nagisa Shimamura, Rena Ishii, Michiru Terashima, Michiko Hamada, Naoyuki Tachibana, Yuji Taketani

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Article in Reproductive medicine and biology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors.

Rena ToriumiWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6339-6813
Michiharu HorikawaWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1746-9270
Chie SatoWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.
Nagisa ShimamuraWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.
Rena IshiiWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-1066
Michiru TerashimaWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.
Michiko HamadaWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5942-9800
Naoyuki TachibanaWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.
Yuji TaketaniWomen's Clinic Oizumigakuen, Lenia Medical Corporation Tokyo Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: Vaginal progesterone (VP) alone has been used as luteal support (LS) in HRT-FET cycles without measuring serum progesterone concentrations (SPC) because it can achieve adequate intrauterine progesterone levels. However, several reports showed that the co-administration of progestin produced better outcomes than VP alone. We tried to address this discrepancy, focusing on SPC. Methods: VP was given to 180 women undergoing HRT-FET. We measured SPC when pregnancy was diagnosed on day 14 of LS. We compared assisted reproductive technology outcomes between VP alone versus VP + dydrogesterone (D). Results: When using VP alone, average SPC in the miscarriage cases (9.6 ng/mL) were significantly lower compared with the ongoing pregnancy (OP) cases (14.7 ng/mL). The cut-off value for progesterone, 10.7 ng/mL, was a good predictor for the subsequent course of the pregnancy. Of 76 women receiving D ± VP from the start of LS and achieving a pregnancy, the numbers of OP were 44 (84.6%) in SPC ≥ 10.7 ng/mL and 20 (83.3%) in SPC ≤ 10.7 ng/mL with no significant difference. Conclusion: VP alone resulted in lower SPC in some pregnant women in HRT-FET cycles and exhibited a lower OP rate. The co-administration of D improved an OP rate of low progesterone cases to the level comparable with non-low progesterone cases.

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ART HRT‐FRT cycledydrogesteroneluteal supportserum progesteronevaginal progesterone

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PMID36969958
PMCPMC10032329
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