Neonatal outcome of early rescue ICSI and ICSI with ejaculated sperm

Rescue ICSI revisited

ICSI was ®rst applied in cases of severe male factor infertility in which conventional IVF would be expected to fail or to give poor outcomes (Van Steirteghem et al., 1993). More recently, however, ICSI has been increasingly used in cases in which conventional IVF would not necessarily be inef®cient. In such cases, ICSI is often preferred because of its reliability in terms of achieving high fe...

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

IVF has become a well-established treatment for certain types of infertility, including long-standing infertility due to tubal disease, endometriosis, unexplained infertility or infertility involving a male factor. Soon it became clear that certain couples with severe male-factor infertility could not be helped by conventional IVF. Extremely low sperm counts, impaired motility and/or abnormal m...

Case report: A healthy live birth following icsi with retrograde ejaculated sperm.

Retrograde ejaculation, sometimes called dry orgasm, refers to the medical condition when semen enters the urinary bladder (retrograde) instead of emerging through the penis after orgasm (antegrade). In some instances, a very minute quantity of antegrade semen appears in the ejaculate and may or may not be devoid of spermatozoa. Complete retrograde ejaculation causes male infertility. Intracyto...

Could using the zona pellucida bound sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) enhance the outcome of ICSI?

I n the recent literature, several interesting articles have been published using the zona pellucdia (ZP)-bound sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to enhance embryo quality, implantation and clinical pregnancy rates. The three studies were performed independently in different ART clinics. In the test group, patients’ sibling immature (either germinal vesicle (GV) or metaphase I) ...