Curative effect of assisted reproduction technology by Traditional Chinese Medicine multi-channel interventional therapy on 95 cases of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer failure.

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the curative effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) multi-channel interventional therapy on women with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) failure, to compare the curative effect of the dual therapy and triple therapy on women with ART Failure, and to choose the best TCM interventional therapeutic plan.

METHODS

The 95 cases with ART Failure from West China second University Hospital of Sichuan University meeting the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into three groups:dual therapy group (31 cases), triple therapy group (33 cases) and control group (31 cases). According to the intervene treatment of in vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) long cycle scheme, the control group wait naturally for 3 months before IVF- ET. The dual therapy group take TCM prescription Ⅱ of cultivating emotion and assisting reproduction and auricular acupoint therapy for 3 months before IVF-ET, then Western Medicine treatment progestin supporting as well as auricular application and Antai Recipe after IVF-ET transplantation. The triple therapy group take TCM prescription Ⅱ of cultivated emotion and assisted reproduction, auricular acupoint therapy and retention enema of TCM, and combination treatment the same as dual therapy group after transplantation. The natural pregnancy number, the period condition of secondary IVF-ET and the improvement of the kidney deficiency, liver depression and blood stasis syndrome among those three groups were compared.

RESULTS

It was showed from analysis in 95 cases with ART failure that the number of natural pregnancy was as followings: 3 patients from the dual therapy group, 10 patients from the triple therapy group, and no patient from the control group. The comparison among three groups have statistical significance (P < 0.05). The treatment group is superior to the control group, while the triple therapy is superior to the dual therapy. The comparison of the condition of the fertility rate, clinical pregnancy rate, biochemical pregnancy rate and early abortion rate during the period of secondary IVF-ET between pre-therapy and post-treatment of both the dual therapy group and the triple therapy group have statistical significance (P < 0.05). The comparison of the improvement of the kidney deficiency, liver depression and blood stasis syndrome between pre-therapy and post-treatment of both the dual therapy group and the triple therapy group have statistical significance (P < 0.05). The comparison between three groups after treatment have statistical significance (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSION

TCM multi-channel interventional therapy can increase the natural pregnancy rate of patients with ART Failure (the triple therapy is superior to the dual therapy); it can increase the fertility rate, clinical pregnancy rate, and decrease the early abortion rate during the period of secondary IVF-ET; it can improve syndromes of kidney deficiency, liver depression and blood stasis.