Reproductive outcome in globozoospermic men: update and prospects

Pnm-15: Men Role in Reproductive Health

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:1118:"Male involvement in reproductive issues cannot be denied. However, throughout history, it is paid little attention to the role of men in reproductive health programs. At the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, the importance of men in reproductive health programs was recognized as one of the most important aspects. Since then, the invol...

Effectiveness of Hysteroscopic Repair of Uterine Lesions in Reproductive Outcome

Pregnancy outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection with strontium oocyte activation in a globozoospermic patient.

Dear Editor, I am Dr Xiao-Yu Yang, from the Center of Clinical Reproductive Medicine in the First Affiliated Hospital at the NanJing Medical University, Nanjing, China. We present here a case report of a globozoospermic patient whose partner became pregnant after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with assisted oocyte activation (AOA). Globozoospermia is characterized by the presence of 10...

P-155: Outcome of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Women Aged 40 Years and Older

Background: Human fertility has been declined all over the world. Advanced women’s age is one of the most important factors in determining the success of reproduction and ageing has negative impact on ART outcome and advanced female age decreases the chance of live birth rates achieved using ART, especially after 40 years of age. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ART outcomes regarding ...

Sperm Vacuoles and Reproductive Outcome

It is estimated that the male factor contributes to half of the infertility in couples attending for assisted reproductive techniques (ART). Therefore the semen analysis remains the starting point to evaluate main causes of infertility and in case of oligospermic semen the assessment of sperm morphology may help to choose the best spermatozoon to use for the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IC...