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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04000152




Registration number
NCT04000152
Ethics application status
Date submitted
25/06/2019
Date registered
27/06/2019
Date last updated
15/12/2022

Titles & IDs
Public title
RCT Study to Validate niPGT-A Clinical Benefit.
Scientific title
Randomized Controlled Clinical Study to Assess the Benefit of Non-invasive PGT-A, by the Analysis of Spent Blastocyst Media, as a Tool for Embryo Prioritization in Infertile Patients Undergoing Assisted Reproduction.
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
IGX1-NIP-CS-18-05
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
niPGT-A_RCT
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Aneuploidy 0 0
Chromosome Abnormality 0 0
Infertility 0 0
Condition category
Condition code

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Patients whose written informed consent approved by the Ethics Committee (EC) has been obtained, after having been duly informed of the nature of the study and voluntarily accepted to participate after being fully aware of the potential risks, benefits and any discomfort involved.
* IVF patients intending to undergo deferred day 6/7 blastocyst SET for any medical indication.
* All the oocytes/embryos from the cycle should follow the laboratory protocol described in the study (embryo culture and vitrification on day 6/7).
* ICSI, IVF or ICSI/IVF performed in fresh own oocytes from couples not undergoing PGT-A. Note: Donor sperm is allowed.
* Female age: 20-40 years, both included.
Minimum age
20 Years
Maximum age
40 Years
Sex
Females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Assisted hatching and artificial collapse before collecting SBM samples. Note: Both procedures are allowed only after collecting the culture media sample.
* A known abnormal karyotype if the couple provides it at consultation. If not, karyotype is not compulsory.
* Couples planning to undergo PGT-M or PGT-SR cases will be excluded.
* Surrogate pregnancy (in those countries where it is allowed).
* ERA test and embryo transfer according to ERA result.
* Time-lapse culture systems are not allowed after day 4 of culture.
* Presence of pathologies or malformations that affect the uterine cavity such as polyps, intramural myomas = 4cm or submucosal, septum or hydrosalpinx during the patient's participation in the study. Patients suffering these pathologies before or after their inclusion in the study can participate if the pathology is corrected before performing any study procedure.
* Any illness or medical condition that is unstable or which, according to medical criteria, may put at risk the patient's safety and her compliance in the study.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Diagnosis
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Not applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Recruiting
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
29/06/2020
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
1/06/2025
Actual
Sample size
Target
1108
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Igenomix
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Chromosomal aneuploidies are linked with spontaneous miscarriages and abnormal offspring in human pregnancies. In addition, some types of aneuploidies are reported to prevent implantation. Thus, there is a need to identify the embryos with highest implantation potential on in vitro fertilization (IVF) programs.

Since embryo morphology and kinetics have a weak association with embryo ploidy, trophectoderm biopsy plus Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is becoming a very popular approach to determine the embryo chromosomal status. This technique is called Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A). Although shown to be efficient, it is invasive for the embryo, requires specific technical skills and it remains expensive. Therefore, the development of a non-invasive, rapid and cheaper method for assessing embryo ploidy status would represent a progress in the field of IVF.

The non-invasive approach has been explored by some groups that analyzed the Spent Blastocyst Medium (SBM) where the embryo was incubated up to the time of transfer or freezing. In daily routine, this media is discarded after finishing the culture of the embryo. Importantly, though, this media reportedly contains traces of embryonic cell-free DNA (cfDNA) that can represent the genetic load of the embryo.

On the basis of that, the hypothesis of this study is that embryo prioritization according to the analysis of the embryonic cfDNA in the SBM could improve ongoing pregnancy rate in 10 percentual points compared to standard blastocyst transfer based on morphology.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04000152
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes
This record is viewable in the ANZCTR as it had previously listed Australia and/or New Zealand as a recruitment site, however these sites have since been removed

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Carmen Rubio, PhD
Address 0 0
Igenomix S.L.
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Carlos Gómez, BSc MSc
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+34 963905310
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04000152