Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: Practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios

Translational Andrology and Urology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 935-950

  Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Majzoub, Ahmad ^a   Esteves, Sandro C ^b   Ko, Edmund ^c   Ramasamy, Ranjith ^d   Zini, Armand ^e  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Androfert   (Brazil)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology (ART); Male infertility; Sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF); Unexplained infertility; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE;

ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 85006307165     PISSN: 22234683     EISSN: 22234691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/tau.2016.10.03     Document Type: Article

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