Journal
JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 911-915Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-011-9614-9
Keywords
IVF; ICSI; Poor response; Oocyte retrieval
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Purpose To determine if patients with a low response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation during IVF benefit from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) Methods Retrospective analysis of 350 IVF cycles in which four or fewer oocytes were retrieved. Severe male factor cases were excluded from analysis. Conventional insemination (CI) and ICSI were compared, with primary outcome measures of fertilization rate, implantation rate, clinical pregnancy rate per embryo transfer, and pregnancy loss rate. Result(s)Fertilization rates per oocyte retrieved for CI and ICSI were comparable (51.5% vs. 51.8%). Parallel implantation rates (22% vs. 25%), clinical pregnancy rates (32.8% vs. 33.3%), and loss rates (26.7% vs. 39.5%) were also noted. No difference in cancelled cycles was reported. Conclusion(s) Our results demonstrate that in the presence of normal semen parameters, low egg number is not an indication to perform ICSI.
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