Assisted oocyte activation (AOA) using a calcium ionophore has been used for more than a decade following intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) fertilization failure. However, since AOA does not mimic precisely the physiological fertilization process, concerns exist about its use in human assisted reproduction. This study assessed the neonatal and neurodevelopmental outcome of children aged ≥...

BACKGROUND There exist contradictive views on whether the vitamin D has association with clinical outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). The present meta-analysis aim to establish whether vitamin D was associated with clinical outcomes of IVF/ICSI. METHODS MEDLINE, Google Scholar and the Cochrane Library from database inception to March 2017 we...

The past three decades have witnessed revolution in reproductive medicine. Since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978 (1), there has been an expansion in the number of vitro fertilization treatment worldwide. In the first European Register publication (2) 203,893 IVF/ICSI were reported by eighteen European countries, and by 2002, this number rose to 324,238 cycles from twenty-five countries, accou...

OBJECTIVE To compare prelabour caesarean section (CS) rates in older nulliparous women with a term singleton baby in cephalic presentation conceiving spontaneously and through IVF/ICSI. When the latter women would ask for CS, how willing are gynaecologists to comply with that request? METHODS A population-based retrospective (1995-2009) cohort study, conducted in Northern Belgium. A compariso...

In this paper, we describe the International Computer Science Institute’s (ICSI’s) multimodal video location estimation system presented at the MediaEval 2011 Placing Task. We describe how textual, visual, and audio cues were integrated into a multimodal location estimation system.

In a total of 1048 intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles, motile spermatozoa from four out of 424 patients (0.9%) failed to fertilize oocytes, despite an apparently successful ICSI procedure. No activation was observed in these injected oocytes. The spermatozoa from three of the four patients were injected into unfertilized mouse oocytes by ICSI (mouse test) to evaluate their oocyte ac...

Microdeletions in the AZFc region of the Y chromosome are found in oligo- and azoospermic men. These mutations were genetically lethal before the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) era but they can nowadays be transmitted to next generations via ICSI. We have tried to answer the question, 'Does ICSI lead to a significant rise in the frequency of these microdeletions in future generations?'...

BACKGROUND Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) requires long training and has low success rates, primarily due to poor control over the injection force. Making force feedback available to the operator will improve the success rate of the injection task. A macro-micro-teleoperation system bridges the gap between the task performed at the micro-level and the macroscopic movements of the opera...

In this paper, the development of a computer controlled piezo manipulation system for biomedical applications such as intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is presented. The hardware setup and the control strategies will be described in full details to illustrate the advantages of this approach as compared to other manual-based injection methods.

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated seasonal variations during IVF. Their results are contradictory, especially concerning fertilization and pregnancy rates. The aim of the present study was to re-evaluate these parameters using a large number of IVF cycles. METHODS A total of 7368 IVF cycles conducted in Switzerland between 1995 and 2003 were retrospectively analysed. To avoid a bia...