Outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection in relation to the meiotic pattern in patients with severe oligoasthenozoospermia

Fertil Steril. 2003 Jul;80(1):91-5. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(03)00553-3.

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome in a selected group of patients with oligoasthenozoospermia in relation to the results obtained from their meiotic analysis.

Design: Retrospective clinical study.

Setting: An assisted reproduction service and a university department.

Patient(s): One hundred thirty-seven men with oligoasthenozoospermia grouped in relation to their meiotic pattern.

Intervention(s): Two hundred twenty-four intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles from 137 men with oligoasthenozoospermia in whom diagnostic meiotic analyses had been performed.

Main outcome measure(s): Fertilization, pregnancy, implantation, and abortion rates.

Result(s): There were no significant statistical differences in fertilization, pregnancy, implantation, or abortion rates among the three groups studied.

Conclusion(s): No statistically significant differences in fertilization, pregnancy, implantation, or abortion rates were found in patients with oligoasthenozoospermia in relation to the meiotic pattern.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Male / therapy*
  • Male
  • Meiosis / physiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Oligospermia / pathology*
  • Pregnancy
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Sperm Count
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / methods*
  • Sperm Motility / physiology
  • Spermatozoa / pathology