- three or more previous failed IVF or ICSI cycles, with the present partner. (Definition of a failed cycle: 'absence of a clinical pregnancy relating to a treatment with embryo transfer resulting from oocyte retrieval for the current intended pregnancy and with the current partner; the transfers include transfers of fresh and frozen within this treatment; clinical pregnancy is defined as the presence of a gestational sac at the earliest ultrasound and includes early clinical miscarriage, late miscarriage and clinically confirmed extrauterine pregnancy, and excludes preclinical miscarriage (biochemical pregnancy); -