PURPOSE: To determine the confounding effect, if any, of poor motility of sperm that are already compromised by an abnormal hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test on pregnancy outcome following in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical and live-delivered pregnancy and implantation rates were retrospectively evaluated in first cycles of couples undergoing IVF-ET with ICSI where the HOS test was < 50% according to deciles of subnormal percentage motility (< 50%) and compared to those with normal motility > or = 50%.
RESULTS: The combination of very poor motility and low HOS test scores did diminish pregnancy rates following IVF with ICSI.
CONCLUSIONS: The only part of fertilization of the oocyte that ICSI does not overcome is phase 2 of oocyte activation. Based on these data, the combination of very low percentage motility and low HOS test scores do not adversely affect pregnancy outcome following IVF with ICSI.
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Tubman A, Check JH, Bollendorf A, Wilson C. Are you the author?
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.
Reference: Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol. 2013;40(3):315-6.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24283154
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