First-line infertility treatment in normal or subnormal sperm: Interest of a simplified pre-IMSI test.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the field of male infertility, when sperm is normal/subnormal, a few "add-on" routine tests can complete the basic semen examination.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a faster, simplified motile sperm organelle morphology examination (MSOME) technique for selected infertile patients with apparently normal/subnormal sperm and, in their background: failure of two or three intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles, repeatedly fragmented embryos, embryonic development to blastocyst-stage failures, repeated miscarriages, a long period of infertility or 2 or more IVF attempts without pregnancy. Our test results were correlated with IUI, conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and intracytoplasmic mor

SUBMITTER: Sigala J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11249273 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature