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- The study compares the effectiveness of Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) with conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF) using donor sperm in women.
- Results showed no significant differences in fertilization, cleavage, pregnancy, or live birth rates between ICSI and conventional IVF, but ICSI led to a lower proportion of high-quality embryos.
- The findings suggest that ICSI does not improve outcomes related to age-related oocyte quality and may not be the preferred method for insemination in these cases.
Article Abstract
Purpose: To compare efficacy of Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) with conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF) on treatment outcome in women undergoing in vitro fertilization with donor sperm.
Methods: We examined retrospectively the outcome data from 203 patients undergoing fresh cycles of conventional IVF (cIVF) or ICSI and an additional 77 frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles during 2003-2014, all using donor sperm. Fertilization, cleavage, pregnancy and live birth rates and number of high-quality embryos were compared between cIVF and ICSI.
Results: Altogether 185 women underwent 479 transfer cycles of fresh embryos (237 cIVF vs. 224 ICSI and 18 "rescue ICSI" cycles). In addition, 77 FET cycles were compared (24 cIVF vs. 53 ICSI cycles). No differences were found between cIVF and ICSI in fertilization, cleavage, pregnancy and live birth rates (92.6% vs 92.2%, 73.4% vs 72.4%, 25.3% vs 27.2% and 13.1% vs 14.7%, respectively). Pregnancy and life birth rates remained similar even when FET cycles were included (25.8% vs 26.2% and 13.1% vs 13.7%, respectively). The use of ICSI was associated with lower rates of high-quality embryos (52.7% vs. 63.3%, P < 0.0001). A multivariate logistic regression analysis found that patients' age, number of transferred embryos and smoking were independently associated with the chance to conceive. Patient age correlated inversely with fertilization rate (r = - 0.13, P < 0.006).Non-smokers were more likely to become pregnant (OR = 2.23, P < 0.012).
Conclusions: Our results show that ICSI does not bypass the age-related decrease in oocyte quality in patients using donor sperm for IVF. Use of ICSI was associated with lower rates of high-quality embryos. The findings imply that ICSI should not be the primary method of insemination in patients undergoing IVF with donor sperm.
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