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Do pregnancy rates differ with intra-uterine insemination when different combinations of semen analysis parameters are abnormal?

A. Kuriya,C. Agbo,M. Dahan

Published 2018 in Journal of the Turkish-German Gynecological Association

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Objective: To evaluate the relationship of one or a combination of semen analysis parameter results on insemination outcomes. Material and Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the effect on pregnancy rates in relation to one or more abnormal semen analysis parameters based on the 2010 World Health Organization semen analysis guidelines. Results: Nine hundred eighty-one couples underwent 2231 intrauterine insemination cycles at the Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center. In our study, the pregnancy rates ranged from 11-25% when an individual or combined semen analysis parameters were analyzed. Similar pregnancy rates were found when one, two, and in most cases three parameters were abnormal. When a single parameter was abnormal among volume, concentration, and motility, pregnancy rates were mainly unaffected. There was the exception of total sperm count where pregnancy rates were diminished when counts were below 39 million (p=0.04). Conclusion: Clearly, total sperm in the specimen and not the concentration of sperm per milliliter was the critical factor for predicting pregnancy. Therefore, a reorganization of semen analysis reports should be done emphasizing the total amount of sperm present and de-emphasizing concentration of sperm.

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