Sperm Selection for micro TESE-ICSI in Non-Obstructive Azoospermia, a Case Report

TESE-ICSI (testicular sperm extraction associated with intracytoplasmic sperm injection) represents a technique to attain pregnancy in couples with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and other unlikely situations. Because of the poor pregnancy outcomes obtained by this procedure, we need new sperm selection techniques to improve the livebirth rate of NOA patients. Here we describe a successful micro TESE-ICSI cycle performed with sperm selected through high magnification and polarized light microscopy in a couple with two previous ICSI failures.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  JBRA Assisted Reproduction

• Publication date

  2021-08-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5935/1518-0557.20210012PMID 34415134PMCID 8489812
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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