title: Assessment of sperm quality analyzer II B: comparison with manual semen analysis and CASA.
abstract: Two hundred and seven patients with male infertility were investigated. Total sperm concentration and percent progressive motility by SQA IIB showed high correlations with those of conventional manual method. Percent of normal morphology showed a significant correlation among these techniques. The sperm motility index (SMI) and total functional sperm concentration (TFSC) demonstrated high correlations with any variables of manual analysis. Only velocity and amplitude of lateral head displacement showed significant correlations with the variables obtained by SQA IIB, especially with SMI and TFSC. It was suggested that SQA IIB could be a useful instrument in the clinical practice of infertility as a screening test for semen quality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan. fuse@ms.toyama-mpu.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fuse
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nozaki
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mizuno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012661:Semen / Q000166:cytology*; D013081:Sperm Motility