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This is a retrospective single center crossover study involving women who did not conceive after one GnRH antagonist stimulation cycle (\u201cstandard cycle\u201d) and proceeded with another GnRH antagonist stimulation cycle preceded by early administration of GnRH antagonist for 3 days (\u201cpretreatment cycle\u201d) with fresh embryo transfer or frozen embryo transfer. 430 patients undergoing 860 cycles were included. The mean female age was 34.4 \u00b1 4.8 years. Indications for fertility treatment included unexplained infertility (34.3%), male-factor infertility (33.3%), age (16.9%), PCOS (8.2%), tubal (4.7) and endometriosis (2.6%). All cycles were divided into two groups: group 1 (standard, 430 cycles) and group 2 (pretreatment, 430 cycles). The mean duration of stimulation was similar in both groups (10.3 vs 10.3 days, p = 0.28). The starting dose of gonadotropin (234.9 vs 196.8 IU, p&lt;0.001), total amount of gonadotropin used (2419 vs 2020 IU, p&lt;0.001), the total number of retrieved COCs (10 vs 7.8 p&lt;0.001) and the number of mature oocytes (8 vs 5.8 p&lt;0.001) were significantly higher in group 2 than in group 1. The Generalized estimating equation (GEE) regression analysis showed that the pretreatment strategy had a significant positive effect on the number of COCs (coefficient 2.4, p &lt;0.001 after adjusting for known confounders (age, indication, stimulation dose, type, and duration of stimulation). 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