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10.05.2024 | Assisted Reproduction Technologies
Is a day 7 blastocyst predictive of the reproductive potential of sibling day 5 and day 6 blastocysts?
Erschienen in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
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Purpose
To explore if a day 7 blastocyst is predictive of the reproductive potential of sibling day 5 or day 6 blastocysts?
Methods
Retrospective cohort of autologous frozen embryo transfers (FET), February 2019 to April 2022. Cycles divided into groups 1 to 5, according to the day of embryo cryopreservation and the presence of a day 7 blastocyst sibling within the cohort: group 1/group 2—day 5 blastocyst without/with a day 7 sibling, group 3/group 4—day 6 blastocyst without/with a day 7 sibling, group 5—day 7 blastocyst. Clinical, ongoing pregnancy and miscarriage rates, cycle, and patient characteristics are reported. Multivariable generalized estimating equations (GEE) logistic regression analysis accounts for confounders and assesses the effect of a sibling day 7 blastocyst on ongoing pregnancy rates of day 5 or day 6 blastocyst FETs.
Results
Ongoing pregnancy rates are 38.4%, 59.5%, 30.8%, 32.7%, and 4.4% in groups 1–5, respectively. When correcting for maternal age, number of oocytes retrieved and discarded per cohort, and ploidy, embryos cryopreserved on either day 6 or day 7 have reduced odds of ongoing pregnancy after FET compared to day 5 blastocysts (OR = 0.76, IQR [0.61–0.95], p-value = 0.01). However, the presence of a day 7 sibling does not significantly affect odds of ongoing pregnancy of day 5 or day 6 blastocysts compared to the same-day blastocyst without a day 7 sibling (p-value = 0.20 and 0.46, respectively). This finding is consistent within both the Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) unscreened and screened (euploid) embryo subgroups.
Conclusions
Day of embryo cryopreservation significantly affects ongoing pregnancy rates. However, day 7 embryos within a cohort do not affect the reproductive potential of sibling day 5 and day 6 blastocysts, suggesting that slow embryo development is an embryo-specific trait.