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REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/rmb2.12432
Keywords
blastocyst; fertilization; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; oocyte; polar body
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of expanding the indications of early rescue ICSI and found that by expanding the indications to include oocytes with <80% rate of the second polar body extrusion, more fertilized oocytes can be obtained without significantly increasing the incidence of abnormal fertilization.
Purpose Early rescue intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is often performed in cases in which not even a single oocyte has extruded a second polar body 6 h after insemination. We evaluated the usefulness of expanding the indications of early rescue ICSI to cases in which In vitro fertilization was performed on 24 496 oocytes of 4944 cycles, and 1438 cycles had <80% rate of the second polar body extrusion. Rescue ICSI was performed on 3933 oocytes. Three pronuclei (3PN) incidence of rescue ICSI was 3.0% in oocytes with >= 50% rate of the second polar body extrusion. With respect to the second polar body extrusion rate, no differences were observed in normal fertilization, blastocyst development, implantation, miscarriage, or live birth rates for rescue ICSI. Conclusion By expanding the indications of early rescue ICSI using the PolScope to cases in which <80% of oocytes have extruded the second polar bodies, many fertilized oocytes can be obtained without considerably increasing the 3PN rate.
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