ArticleClinical and experimental reproductive medicine2021
Predictive value of sperm motility before and after preparation for the pregnancy outcomes of intrauterine insemination.
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- Global trends in semen quality of young men: a systematic review and regression analysis.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2023Pooled it
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- Clinical Pregnancy Rate in Intrauterine Insemination and Associated Prognostic Factors.Annals of African medicine · 2026Observational
- Timing Matters? Impact of Early Sperm Processing on Motile Sperm Recovery, Fertilization, Blastocyst Rate, and Pregnancy Outcomes in IUI and IVF.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- An Artificial Intelligence-Based Model to Predict Pregnancy After Intrauterine Insemination: A Retrospective Analysis of 9501 Cycles.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- The Influence of Lifestyle on Male Fertility in the Context of Insulin Resistance-Identification of Factors That Influence Semen Quality.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Is There Any Effect of Change in Pre-Wash and Post-Wash Semen Parameters on the Success of Intrauterine Insemination?Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Development of a biomolecular approach to identify sperm functions and fertility using sperm RNAs.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- The Effectiveness of Sperm Preparation Using Density Mini-Gradient and Single-Layer Centrifugation for Oligospermia Samples.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2022Article
- Impact of current and previous sperm findings on outcomes of intrauterine insemination.Reproductive medicine and biologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to investigate sperm motility and its changes after preparation as predictors of pregnancy in intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles.
methodsIn total, 297 IUI cycles from January 2012 to December 2017 at a single tertiary hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Patient and cycle characteristics, and sperm motility characteristics before and after processing were compared according to clinical pregnancy or live birth as outcomes.
resultsThe overall clinical pregnancy rate per cycle was 14.5% (43/297) and the live birth rate was 10.4% (30/289). Patient and cycle characteristics were similar between pregnant and non-pregnant groups. Sperm motility after preparation and the total motile sperm count before and after processing were comparable in terms of pregnancy outcomes. Pre-preparation sperm motility was significantly higher in groups with clinical pregnancy and live birth than in cycles not resulting in pregnancy (71.4%±10.9% vs. 67.2%±11.7%, p=0.020 and 71.6%±12.6% vs. 67.3%±11.7%, p=0.030, respectively). The change in sperm motility after processing was significantly fewer in the non-pregnant cycles, both when the comparison was conducted by subtraction (post-pre) and division (post/pre). These relationships remained significant after adjusting for the female partner's age, anti-Müllerian hormone level, and number of pre-ovulatory follicles. According to a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, an initial sperm motility of ≥72.5% was the optimal threshold value for predicting live birth after IUI.
conclusionInitial sperm motility, rather than the motility of processed sperm or the degree of change after preparation, predicted live birth after IUI procedures.
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