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NCT Number: NCT06887881

PIMS vs PGT-A in Infertile PCOS Patients

This experiment has become a serious issue for two reasons: DNA methylation plays an important role during embryogenesis, global abnormal methylome reprogramming often occurs in human embryos, and DNA methylome pattern is associated with live birth rate. The endocrine metabolic disorders of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) patients may affect the epigenetic status of embryos and lead to the increase of early pregnancy loss rate in PCOS patients. However, there is still no technology using DNA methylome as an indicator in preimplantation embryo screening in PCOS patients. Our recent study showed that using Pre-implantation Methylation Screening (PIMS) can select embryos with better methylation state and euploid chromosomes. The efficiency of PIMS in PCOS patients needs further validation through randomized controlled clinical trial.

The purpose of the study is to compare whether the two groups of PCOS patients who selected embryos using PIMS and selected embryos using "PGT-A + morphology"had any difference in early pregnancy loss rate. This study aims to explore whether PIMS can be used as another embryo evaluation method besides "PGT-A+morphology" to screen good developmental potential embryos in patients with PCOS. Investigators need to clarify whether a better embryo evaluation system can be established through PIMS technology during assisted reproductive treatment for infertile PCOS couples and provide credible and effective evidence-based medical evidence for the application of PMIS technology in the field of reproductive medicine.

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Key information

Conditions

Age range

20 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Zhongshan Boai Hospital

Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Study Coordinator

CONTACT

[email protected]

86+13590705114

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Women aged between 20 and 40 years diagnosed with PCOS according to international evidence-based guidline for assessment and management of policystic ovarian syndrome 2018.
  • Women who plan to undergo the 1st/2nd IVF/ICSI/PGT-A treatment cycle.
  • Women who obtain 2 or more blastocysts that have morphological score of 4BC/4CB or better on Day 5of embryo culture.
  • Culture all the cleavage stage embryos into blastocysts, conduct biopsy on all the blastocysts, and cryopreserve each blastocyst as a single embryo
  • Agree to the thawing and transfer of a single blastocyst.
  • Sign the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

  • Women with a uterine cavity abnormality, such as a uterine congenital malformation (uterus unicornate, bicornate, or duplex); untreated uterine septum, submucous myoma, or endometrial polyp(s); or with history of intrauterine adhesions.
  • Women who are indicated and planned to undergo preimplantation genetic testing for structural rearrangements (PGT-SR) or preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic (PGT-M).
  • Women who use donated oocytes or sperm to achieve pregnancy.
  • Women with contraindication for assisted reproductive technology or for pregnancy, such as undiagnosed liver disease or dysfunction (based on serum liver enzyme testing); renal disease or abnormal serum renal function; significant anemia; history of deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolus, or cerebrovascular accident; uncontrolled hypertension, known symptomatic heart disease; history of or suspected carcinoma including including cervical carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, or breast carcinoma; undiagnosed vaginal bleeding and so on.
  • Untreated hydrosalpinx according to ultrasonography test.

Treatment and study plan

PIMS screening

Genetic

Couples in the PIMS group will have up to 6 blastocysts screened with PIMS and a single euploid embryo with the optimal state of whole-genome DNA methylation and the highest morphologic score will be selected for the initial transfer

PGT-A screening

Genetic

Couples in the PGT-A group will have up to 6 blastocysts screened with PGT-A and a single euploid blastocyst with the highest morphologic score selected for the initial transfer.

Primary outcomes

  1. early pregnancy loss rate

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

    early pregnancy loss rate in one year after randomization

  2. cumulative live birth rate per oocyte retrieval cycle

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

    cumulative live birth rate per oocyte retrieval cycle in one year after randomization

Secondary outcomes

  1. clinical pregnancy rate after initial embryo transfer

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  2. time to get live birth

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  3. the rate of a Good Birth Outcome

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  4. multiple pregnancy rate

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  5. duration of pregnancy

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  6. birth weight

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

  7. incidence of maternal and neonatal complications (including fetal anomalies)

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

Other

Collaborators

  • BoAi Hospital of Zhongshan
  • Dongguan Maternal and Children Health Hospital
  • Guangdong Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital
  • Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center
  • Liuzhou Hospital of Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center
  • Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
  • Peking University Shenzhen Hospital
  • Shenzhen Maternal and Child Health Hospital
  • Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
  • The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
  • Zhuhai Maternal and Child Health Hospital

Registry information

Official study title

Clinical Use of Preimplantation DNA Methylation Screening (PIMS) and Preimplantation Genetics Screening (PGT-A) in Infertile PCOS Patients-A Multicenter, Prospective Randomized Non-inferior Clinical Trial

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Mar 20, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 2, 2026

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