High prevalence of allergy in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.

Autor: Esfandiari N; Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA., Nesbit C; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA., Litzky J; Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA., Dela Cruz D; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA., Gibson S; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA., DeMars L; Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA., Esfandiari N; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA. Navid.esfandiari@hitchcock.org.; Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA. Navid.esfandiari@hitchcock.org.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics [J Assist Reprod Genet] 2020 Feb; Vol. 37 (2), pp. 311-320. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 21.
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-020-01691-z
Abstrakt: Purpose: To determine the prevalence of allergy in couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the relationship between having allergy and IVF treatment outcomes.
Design: A retrospective cohort study of female infertility patients aged 20-49 years and their male partners undergoing IVF cycles from August 2010 to December 2016 in an academic fertility program.
Results: Prevalence data was collected for 493 couples (935 cycles). Over half of the female patients (54%) had at least one reported allergy versus the cited US prevalence of 10-30%. Antibiotic (54.7%) and non-antibiotic medication (39.2%) were the most common female allergy subtypes. Fewer male patients reported allergy (21.7%). Data on β-hCG outcomes were calculated for 841 cycles from 458 couples with no significant relationship found except for number of cycles including ICSI and number of embryos transferred per cycle (1.81 for those without allergy vs 2.07 for those with allergy, p = 0.07). Female patients with allergy were marginally statistically more likely to have a negative β-hCG (p = 0.07) and less likely to have a successful cycle (p = 0.06). When allergy subgroups were evaluated, there were no significant differences between groups except for a higher number of embryos transferred in women with environmental/other allergies (p = 0.02).
Conclusion: The prevalence of allergy among patients seeking infertility treatment is high compared with the general population. However, allergy was not found to be associated with IVF cycle outcomes. These findings are likely primarily limited by difficulty in defining specific allergy types within a retrospective study.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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