title: Pregnancy after direct intraperitoneal insemination of spermatozoa from a man with severe infertility, after unsuccessful application of other methods of assisted fertilization.
abstract: Direct intraperitoneal insemination (DIPI) is one of the least invasive strategies of assisted reproduction. Unexplained infertility and male sub-fertility are the major indications for DIPI. It is otherwise well known that assisted procreation gives poor results in severe male infertility. This is a report of a pregnancy that occurred as a result of a direct intraperitoneal insemination of prepared spermatozoa characterized by a particularly severe astheno-teratozoospermia in a couple unsuccessfully treated with other, more invasive methods of assisted fertilization.
authors.affiliation: III Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ragni
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Lombroso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Lauretis
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Olivares
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cristiani
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Crosignani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007274:Injections, Intraperitoneal; D007315:Insemination, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple