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Objective: To evaluate the effects of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) ontreatment of infertility due to obstructive and non-obstructive azoospermia..Methods: A retrospective analysis of fertilization, cleavage, embryo implantationand pregnancy rates was done in 158 ICSI cycles including 112 obstructive azoospermiaand 46 non-obstructive azoospermia. Ovarian hyperstimulation and ICSI procedureswere performed by conventional protocol. The sperm was collected by percutaneous epi-didymal sperm aspiration (PESA) or testicular sperm extraction (TESE).Results:The fertilization rate (73.1% vs. 67.0%), cleavage rate (88.6% vs. 86.3%), embryo implantation rate (20.7% vs. 11.4%), clinical pregnancy rate per trans-fer cycle (35.7% vs. 19.6%) were obtained for obstructive and non-obstructiveazoospermia, respectively.Conclusion: The results revealed that in the cases of obstructive azoospermia, ferti-lization rate, embryo implantation rate and clinical pregnancy rate were significantlyhigher than those of non-obstructive azoospermia. But there was no significant differ-ence of the cleavage rate between two groups. |
