Treatment of infertility because of oligoasthenoteratospermia by transcervical intrauterine insemination of motile spermatozoa.
Fifty-three couples with longstanding infertility, the woman being potentially fertile and the man having poor-quality semen, were admitted to a therapeutic trial. A high intrauterine instillation of a washed motile fraction of spermatozoa from the subfertile man was performed in the woman on the day of ovulation. After 130 treatment cycles, 9 of the 53 women had conceived, all within 3 cycles. This simple and painless procedure can be considered an alternative treatment in oligoasthenoteratospermia.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000628:therapy*; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000209:etiology; D007315:Insemination, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D007317:Insemination, Artificial, Homologous / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010061:Ovulation Detection; D013081:Sperm Motility