Higher pregnancy rates using testicular sperm in men with severe oligospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1382-1387

  Mehta, Akanksha ^a,b   Bolyakov, Alexander ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^a   Paduch, Darius A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; recurrent pregnancy loss; sperm DNA fragmentation; terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay; TESE; testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PARITY; PATERNAL AGE; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; APOPTOSIS; FERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUNEL ASSAY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84945412948     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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