Successful pregnancy using known donor oocytes fertilized in vitro by spermatozoa obtained by electro-ejaculation from a quadriplegic husband.
A 34-year-old quadriplegic man with a C6/C7 spinal cord lesion of 10 years' duration fathered a child with his 35-year-old wife who had undergone a premature menopause 10 years earlier. Pregnancy was achieved from in-vitro fertilization of two oocytes donated by the wife's sister using spermatozoa from the husband obtained by repeated electro-ejaculation techniques. A healthy male infant weighing 2250 g was delivered by Caesarean section at 37 weeks following mild pre-eclampsia.
Leeton
J
J
Infertility Medical Centre, Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Yates
C
C
Rawicki
B
B
D000328:Adult; D004542:Ejaculation / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009865:Oocytes; D011247:Pregnancy; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013084:Sperm-Ovum Interactions / Q000502:physiology; D014019:Tissue Donors