Private medical care has significantly contributed to the advancement of various medical fields. The birth of private IVF groups in the 1990s led to improvements in stimulation protocols, embryo culture, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, vitrification and preimplantation genetic testing. However, infertility is often misunderstood as a disease, leading to low birth rates and a lack of awareness among the general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate whether leukocytospermia (defined as the presence of ≥ 1 × 10 white blood cells/mL) affects clinical and embryologic outcomes in in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A).
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study including 5425 cycles between January 2012 to December 2021 at a single large university-affiliated fertility clinic. The primary outcome was live birth rate (LBR).
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol
November 2023