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In Vitro Fertilization/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection for Male Infertility.

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By Goral Gandhi (Indo Nippon IVF) - Progress in the field of assisted reproduction, and particularly micromanipulation, now heralds a new era in the management of severe male factor infertility, not amenable to medical or surgical correction. By overcoming natural barriers to conception, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET), subzonal sperm insemination, partial zona dissection, and intracytoplasmatic injection of sperm (ICSI) now offer couples considered irreversibly infertile, the option of parenting a genetically related child. However, unlike IVF, which necessitates an optimal sperm number and function to successfully complete the sequence of events leading to fertilization, micromanipulation techniques, such as ICSI, involving the direct injection of a spermatozoon into the oocyte, obviate all these requirements and may be used to alleviate severe male factor infertility due to the lack of sperm in the ejaculate due to severely impaired spermatogenesis (...

Some of the Most Common Questions asked about In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

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While Infertility has dented the happiness of thousand of couples around the world, most of them have found IVF as a ray of hope that can certainly make them realize their “Baby” dreams. Still most of them, and specially the female partners, comes through numerous questions and doubts in their minds about all the ‘How’s” and “Ifs” about the  IVF treatment process . Although you can search on the internet about most of questions and doubts, let’s take a thorough look at the ones which still gets unanswered.