Acta Biomedica Scientifica (May 2016)

Analysis of the efficiency of IFV techniques (ICSI, PICSI) in the assisted reproductive technology programs

  • N. V. Protopopova,
  • E. B. Druzhinina,
  • D. V. Maslova,
  • Y. V. Mylnikova,
  • N. A. Boldonova,
  • E. V. Odareeva,
  • L. I. Mashchakevich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12737/21586
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3(1)
pp. 15 – 19

Abstract

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The male factor is the cause of infertility in 40 % of cases. This study is dedicated to the efficiency assessment of ICSI and PICSI techniques and the determination of indications of these methods. There are some relative indicationsfor ICSI in clinical practice: advanced reproductive age of patients, a small number of obtained oocytes, prolonged infertility, repeated attempts of in vitro fertilization. However, normal sperm values are registered in 71.3 % of cases. PICSI method is more preferable at high level of DNA fragmentation and associated changes in sperm indicators. Nevertheless, the pregnancy rate after these methods was comparable - 19.3 % and 19.7 % respectively. The results indicate that the ICSI and PICSI methods do not have a negative impact on the quality of the embryos and do not increase the pregnancy rate.

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