Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection May Increase the Risk of Imprinting Defects
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Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is an assisted reproductive technique [4] (ART) initially developed by Dr. Gianpiero D. Palermo [5] in 1993 to treat male infertility [6]. It is most commonly used in conjunction with in vitro [7] fertilization [8] (IVF) or a less commonly used technique called zygote intrafallopian transfer [9] (ZIFT). In natural fertilization [8], the sperm [10] must pe...
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IVF has become a well-established treatment for certain types of infertility, including long-standing infertility due to tubal disease, endometriosis, unexplained infertility or infertility involving a male factor. Soon it became clear that certain couples with severe male-factor infertility could not be helped by conventional IVF. Extremely low sperm counts, impaired motility and/or abnormal m...
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether the high rate of chromosomal abnormalities in the embryos of an infertile couple were caused by a paternal factor that may have involved the sperm centriole. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Private IVF program. PATIENT(S) An infertile couple who underwent IVF-ET because of severe male factor infertility and endometriosis. INTERVENTION(S) Preimplantation geneti...
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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is the latest of several microfertilization techniques that have been utilized predominantly to overcome severe male subfertility, giving fertilization and term pregnancy rates similar to conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF) (but for other indications). Even though available data on children born after ICSI are very encouraging, the procedure must st...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0002-9297
DOI: 10.1086/341096