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Outcome measures included live birth rate per transfer cycle, clinical pregnancy rate per transfer cycle, and early miscarriage rate per clinical pregnancy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>All patients underwent endometrial preparation using a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protocol. Endometrial thickness on the day before transformation was significantly higher in the PRP group compared to the control group (10.58\u2009\u00b1\u20091.78\u2005mm vs. 9.79\u2009\u00b1\u20091.58\u2005mm, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.001). The PRP group exhibited significantly higher clinical pregnancy rate per transfer cycle and live birth rate per transfer cycle than the control group (58.25% vs. 40.52%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.038; 52.43% vs. 34.48%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.007). The difference in early miscarriage rate per clinical pregnancy between the PRP group and the control group was not statistically significant (8.33% vs. 14.89%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.86). The live birth rate per transfer cycle in the single-PRP subgroup was significantly lower than in the multiple-PRP subgroup (44.62% vs. 65.79%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.038). There were no statistically significant differences in clinical pregnancy rate per transfer cycle or early miscarriage rate per clinical pregnancy between the single-PRP and multiple-PRP subgroups (52.31% vs. 68.42%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.110; 11.76% vs. 3.85%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.377).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>For patients diagnosed with chronic endometritis undergoing their first frozen-thawed blastocyst transfer after standardized antibiotic treatment, adjunctive PRP intrauterine perfusion therapy improves pregnancy outcomes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/frph.2025.1644445","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,11]],"date-time":"2025-08-11T05:24:04Z","timestamp":1754889844000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The effect of autologous platelet-rich plasma intrauterine 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