Rhemrev JP, Lens JW, McDonnell J, Schoemaker J, Vermeiden JP. The postwash total progressively motile sperm cell count is a reliable predictor of total fertilization failure during in vitro fertilization treatment.
Fertil Steril 2001;
76:884-91. [PMID:
11704106 DOI:
10.1016/s0015-0282(01)02826-6]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To predict the chance of total fertilization failure (TFF) before the day of ovum pickup with known semen and female variables.
DESIGN
A statistical model was constructed to predict TFF by retrospective analysis (2,366 couples) and subsequently tested on a new IVF population (917 couples).
SETTING
Academic tertiary referral center.
PATIENT(S)
Three thousand three hundred eighty-three couples who underwent an IVF-ET treatment.
INTERVENTION(S)
None.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S)
The ability to predict the probability of TFF in IVF.
RESULT(S)
Two variables-postwash total progressively motile sperm cell count (postwash TPMC) and number of follicles-were found to be significant. Taking a probability of 25% as an acceptable risk of TFF, we calculated that a postwash TPMC of <1.1 x 10(6) cells results in a risk of TFF of >25%. Low responders (<4 follicles) needed a postwash TPMC of >2.2 x 10(6) cells to reduce the risk of TFF to <25%. High responders (>15 follicles) needed only 0.35 x 10(6) postwash progressively motile spermatozoa.
CONCLUSION(S)
When postwash TPMC and number of follicles are known and an unacceptable TFF outcome is expected, one can propose an ICSI procedure a few days before the day of ovum pickup.
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