Abstract:
obective: To investigate whether preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy ( PGT-A) improves IVF pregnancy outcomes for patients with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) or advanced maternal age. Methods: This study retrospectively analyzed patients with RPL or advanced maternal age ( ≥ 35 years old) who underwent PGT-A in the assisted reproduction center of Xuzhou maternal and child health hospital from January 2019 to January 2021. The pregnancy outcomes of each group were compared after single euploid blastocyst transfer. Results: The rates of blastocyst aneuploidy in patients with RPL or advanced maternal age were 42.5% and 62.8%, respectively. This study included PGT-A cycles in IVF patients with RPL ( n=52), those with advanced maternal age ( n=50), non-PGT-A cycles in patients with RPL (n=23 ) and those with advanced maternal age ( n=381) as control group. It was found that there was no statistical difference in embryo implantation rate, biochemical pregnancy rate, clinical pregnancy rate, ongoing pregnancy rate , and clinical abortion rate between RPL PGT-A group and the control group (P> 0.05). However, the ongoing pregnancy rate of RPL PGT-A group tended to be lower. There was no significant difference in pregnancy outcomes between the two groups after age stratification with the age of 35 as the dividing point. Compared with the control group, the embryo implantation rate (66.0% vs. 44.6%), biochemical pregnancy rate (66.0% vs. 48.8%), clinical pregnancy rate (66.0% vs. 44.6%) and ongoing pregnancy rate (58.0% vs. 34.9%) in the PGT-A group of patients with advanced maternal age were significantly higher (P < 0.05). Moreover, PGT-A had a more obvious effect on the improvement of IVF pregnancy rate with the increase of age and reduce d the abortion rate of patients with advanced maternal age to a certain extent (12.1% vs. 22.9%). Conclusion: PGT-A avoids the aneuploid blastocyst implantation and improves IVF pregnancy outcome in patients with advanced maternal age , with no good effect on that of patients with RPL.