title: Healthy live birth using theophylline in a case of retrograde ejaculation and absolute asthenozoospermia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze whether the use of ready-to-use theophylline is a feasible option in a case of retrograde ejaculation and absolute asthenozoospermia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  In vitro fertilization unit of a public hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-one-year-old nulliparous woman, and 39-year-old male with retrograde ejaculation and absolute asthenozoospermia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrieval of postejaculatory urine, restoration of motility using a methylxanthine, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, single-embryo transfer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sperm motility, fertilization, embryo quality, live birth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Successful fertilization and a single-embryo transfer resulted in a healthy live birth.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Theophylline turned out to be a safe, efficient agent for stimulating immotile spermatozoa in patients with retrograde ejaculation.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Kinderwunsch Zentrum, Landes, Frauen, und Kinderklinik, Austria. Electronic address: thomas.ebner@gespag.at.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ebner
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Kinderwunsch Zentrum, Landes, Frauen, und Kinderklinik, Austria.
authors.forename: Omar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shebl
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Kinderwunsch Zentrum, Landes, Frauen, und Kinderklinik, Austria.
authors.forename: Richard Bernhard
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Kinderwunsch Zentrum, Landes, Frauen, und Kinderklinik, Austria.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern, Linz, Austria.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Costamoling
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Kinderwunsch Zentrum, Landes, Frauen, und Kinderklinik, Austria.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oppelt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D053627:Asthenozoospermia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D004542:Ejaculation / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D050498:Live Birth; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / Q000379:methods*; D013806:Theophylline / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D013806:Theophylline
keywords: Absolute asthenozoospermia; live birth; motility; retrograde ejaculation; theophylline