title: The relationship between total motile sperm count and the success of intrauterine insemination.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if the total motile sperm count is predictive of IUI success and to apply life-table analysis to a large database of IUI procedures.
  
  
  METHODS
  Contingency table and life-table analyses were used to analyze a large group of couples (n = 546) undergoing 1,205 cycles of therapeutic IUI with husband's sperm.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical infertility practice at a medical school referral center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five hundred forty-six couples with varying etiologies of infertility.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a trend toward an increasing percentage of conception with increasing total motile sperm count. Significance was reached when the total motile sperm count used for IUI exceeded 20 x 10(6). The cumulative pregnancy rate calculated from this data reached 52% after the sixth attempted cycle of IUI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Brasch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rawlins
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tarchala
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Radwanska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005306:Fertilization; D006801:Humans; D007317:Insemination, Artificial, Homologous; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013076:Sperm Count; D013081:Sperm Motility