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Original Research
Comparison of the efficacy of selecting sperm with normal nuclei by high magnification for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) according to age in refractory in vitro fertilization (IVF) cases
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1 The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & infertility, Camden, NJ (USA)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2009, 36(3), 152–153;
Published: 10 September 2009
Abstract

Purpose: To determine the pregnancy rates according to age in women failing to conceive after three previous embryo transfers or having a husband whose sperm shows a DNA fragmentation index (DFI) > 30% when performing the sperm chromatin structure assay. Methods: Women up to age 45 were included and there was no restriction for low egg reserve. Live delivered pregnancy rates were determined according to three age groups: <34, 35-38, 39-45. The data were also analyzed in a group comparable to previous publications using high magnification ICSI, i.e., younger women with normal egg reserve. Pregnancy rates following frozen embryo transfer were also evaluated. Results: Using all 86 in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) cycles the live delivered pregnancy rates were 40% (10/25) for women 3 previous failed IVF-ET cycles the live delivered pregnancy rate per transfer was 38% (16/42). If one adds the additional six live deliveries from subsequent frozen embryo transfer (6 of 17, 35.3%) this group of women had a 52.3% (22/42) live delivered pregnancy rate from one egg retrieval. Conclusions: These data were uncontrolled and thus conclusions should be viewed with caution. The results are sufficiently encouraging to warrant a prospective controlled trial and possibly encourage a company to consider commercially manufacturing high magnification microscopes.
Keywords
High magnification
Nuclear morphology
DNA fragmentation index
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
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