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Pregnancy Success Rates of Acupuncture for in Vitro Fertilization

NCT03572608 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2018-06-28

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Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of acupuncture on pregnancy success before embryo transfer in IVF treatment in female infertile patients. Half of participants will receive acupuncture sessions before embryo transfer, while the other half will not receive.

Conditions

  • Infertility, Female

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture treatment

Classical acupuncture points will be used without a formal traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis in the intervention group. Neither manual needle stimulation nor moxibustion will used. The needles will left in place for 30 min and de qi was not sought. The points will be selected bilateral Heart-7, bilateral Large Intestine-4, Governing Vessel-20 and ear shenmen for the first session. Bilateral Conception Vessel-3,4,6, bilateral Liver-3, bilateral Stomach-30, bilateral Spleen-6, bilateral Governing Vessel-20 will be used for the second session. Bilateral Large Intestine-4, bilateral Spleen-6,9, bilateral Stomach-36 will be used for the last session. All acupuncture points will be selected and localized on the basis of the WHO Standardised Acupuncture Point Location.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ataturk University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bunyamin Borekci · Ataturk University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
23 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-01
Primary Completion
2018-09-01
Completion
2018-10-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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