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The relationship between total
motile sperm count and pregnancy
rate after intrauterine inseminationTooba Mehrannia
ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the relationship between the total motile sperm count and the success of IUI treatment cycles with postwashed husband spermatozoa in couples with infertility in a large patient population.
Design: Retrospective descriptive study.
Setting: Academic University Hospital- based infertility center.
Patients: Eight hundred twenty four infertile couples undergoing 824 cycles of IUI.
Main outcome measure(s): To assess the significance of prognostic factors including a woman’s age, duration of infertility, diagnoses, use of ovulation induction and sperm parameters for predicting the outcomes of clinical pregnancy after the first cycle of IUI.
Results: The pregnancy rate per cycle was 18.2% (150/824). Postwashed semen parameters including total motile sperm count >10×106,motility >50%. There was a trend toward an increased success rate with increased total motile Sperm count.
Conclusion: Our finding suggest that a final postwashed total motile sperm count used for IUI may be considered predictive of the success for pregnancy.
KEY WORDS: Infertility, Intrauterine insemination, Semen analysis, Pregnancy.
Pak J Med Sci July - September 2006 Vol. 22 No. 3 223-227
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