Regular IVF often best when only one egg available
(wz) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For infertile couples undergoing assisted reproduction when only a single egg is retrieved, a conventional in vitro fertilization approach is adequate when semen quality is good, research suggests.
In fact, semen quality should be the most important determinant when considering which fertilization technique to use, specialists from the US and Israel advise in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
The choice is between intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), in which a single sperm is injected into the egg under a microscope, or conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF), which essentially places the egg with semen in a test tube.
Dr. Jacob Levron from The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. and colleagues compared the success rate of ICSI and conventional IVF with a single egg in couples with good and poor sperm quality. more…
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