29.10.2019 | Commentary
Density gradient centrifugation and swim-up for ICSI: useful, unsafe, or just unsuitable?
verfasst von:
Hamilton De Martin, Eduardo P. Miranda, Marcello S. Cocuzza, Pedro A. A. Monteleone
Erschienen in:
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
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Excerpt
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) revolutionized the treatment of male factor infertility [
1]. ICSI eliminates all natural selection barriers, since the spermatozoon is directly injected into the oocyte cytoplasm [
2]. While visual inspection permits a trained embryologist to identify immature spermatozoa, the damage in sperm DNA itself does not result in any morphological changes, making its identification nearly impossible [
3]. Therefore, semen processing prior to ICSI procedures is of utmost importance. …