title: A healthy birth after intracytoplasmic sperm injection using ejaculated spermatozoa from a patient with Kartagener's syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a healthy birth that was achieved by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with use of ejaculated spermatozoa from a patient with Kartagener's syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Private infertility clinic.
  
  
  METHODS
  Couple with male factor infertility due to Kartagener's syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  Intracytoplasmic sperm injection with ejaculated sperm.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semen characteristics, sperm motility, fertilization, pregnancy, and birth after ICSI.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With ejaculated sperm, the fertilization rates were 73% in the first stimulation cycle and 100% in the second cycle. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection was successful. The pregnancy resulted in birth of a single healthy child.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With ejaculated sperm, successful pregnancy after ICSI in couples with Kartagener's syndrome is possible. Kartagener's syndrome is a heterogeneous group of disorders with similar clinical presentations, and treatment should be individualized depending on sperm motility.
authors.affiliation: Hanabusa Women's Clinic, Chuo-Ku, Kobe, Japan. matsumoto@hanabusaclinic.com
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Sakae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Shoji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kokeguchi
authors.forename: Masahide
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiotani
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004542:Ejaculation; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000628:therapy; D007619:Kartagener Syndrome / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D036801:Parturition / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / Q000379:methods; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000473:pathology* / Q000637:transplantation