The impact of medical therapies and factors related to treatment procedures in women with rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease receiving assisted reproduction : a nationwide cohort study

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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA)/chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), or factors related to the assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures, impact the success of ART. In women with RA/IBD, initial studies have shown a reduced chance of a live-born child after ART.

DESIGN: Cohort study.

SETTING: Nationwide Danish health registries.

PATIENTS: All Danish women with a fresh embryo transfer from January 1, 2006, through 2018. The cohorts comprised 1,824 embryo transfers in women with RA/IBD and 97,191 embryo transfers in women without RA/IBD.

INTERVENTIONS: Observational, noninterventional study.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Live birth per fresh embryo transfer.

RESULTS: The chance of a live birth in women with RA/IBD receiving ART, compared with other women receiving ART, had an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 0.79 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.68-0.91). Prescribed corticosteroids before embryo transfer were positively associated with a live-born child (adjusted OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.12-1.31), while the use of antiinflammatory/immunosuppressive agents did not have significant importance. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection was associated with a reduced chance (adjusted OR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.90-0.97). Type of hormone treatment protocol did not have significant importance, and transfer at the blastocyst stage was positively associated with a live-born child (adjusted OR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.46-1.62).

CONCLUSIONS: In women with RA and/or IBD, prescribed corticosteroid before embryo transfer and embryo transfer at the blastocyst stage were associated with successful ART. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection was associated with a slightly reduced chance. Antiinflammatory/immunosuppressive agents and type of hormone protocols did not have significant importance.

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CommentIn: Fertil Steril. 2021 Dec;116(6):1501. - PMID 34742562

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:116

Enthalten in:

Fertility and sterility - 116(2021), 6 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 1492-1500

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nørgård, Bente Mertz [VerfasserIn]
Wod, Mette [VerfasserIn]
Larsen, Michael Due [VerfasserIn]
Friedman, Sonia [VerfasserIn]
Jølving, Line Riis [VerfasserIn]
Fedder, Jens [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ART
Inflammatory bowel disease
Journal Article
Live birth
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rheumatoid arthritis

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Date Completed 21.12.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Fertil Steril. 2021 Dec;116(6):1501. - PMID 34742562

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.fertnstert.2021.07.1198

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329766791