ArticleJournal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association2018
Do pregnancy rates differ with intra-uterine insemination when different combinations of semen analysis parameters are abnormal?
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- Longitudinal semen parameter assessments and live birth: variability and implications for treatment strategies.Fertility and sterility · 2022Trial
- Optimizing outcomes in intrauterine insemination: A narrative synthesis of two decades of clinical research (2000-2024).International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Review
- The influence of body mass index on oxidative stress markers in infertile men's semen parameters.Clinical and experimental reproductive medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluation of selected semen parameters and biomarkers of male infertility - preliminary study.F1000Research · 2022Article
- CNFE-SE: a novel approach combining complex network-based feature engineering and stacked ensemble to predict the success of intrauterine insemination and ranking the features.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Associated factors to pregnancy in intrauterine insemination.JBRA assisted reproduction · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the relationship of one or a combination of semen analysis parameter results on insemination outcomes. MATERIAL AND
methodsA retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the effect on pregnancy rates in relation to one or more abnormal semen analysis parameters based on the 2010 World Health Organization semen analysis guidelines.
resultsNine hundred eighty-one couples underwent 2231 intrauterine insemination cycles at the Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center. In our study, the pregnancy rates ranged from 11-25% when an individual or combined semen analysis parameters were analyzed. Similar pregnancy rates were found when one, two, and in most cases three parameters were abnormal. When a single parameter was abnormal among volume, concentration, and motility, pregnancy rates were mainly unaffected. There was the exception of total sperm count where pregnancy rates were diminished when counts were below 39 million (p=0.04).
conclusionsClearly, total sperm in the specimen and not the concentration of sperm per milliliter was the critical factor for predicting pregnancy. Therefore, a reorganization of semen analysis reports should be done emphasizing the total amount of sperm present and de-emphasizing concentration of sperm.
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