title: Normal live birth after vitrified/warmed oocytes intracytoplasmic sperm injection with immotile spermatozoa in a patient with Kartagener's syndrome.
abstract: The present article is a report on two cases of male Kartagener's syndrome enrolled in intraconjugal IVF programme due to akinetospermia. Viable spermatozoa were selected using a hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) and pentoxifylline activation and subsequently microinjected into vitrified/warmed oocytes. The treatment enabled one of these two couples to achieve a pregnancy and to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Montjean
authors.affiliation: Electron microscopy Department, Medicine faculty of La Timone, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Courageot
authors.affiliation: Electron microscopy Department, Medicine faculty of La Timone, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Altié
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amar-Hoffet
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rossin
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Geoffroy-Siraudin
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tourame
authors.affiliation: Service of Medicine and Reproductive Biology, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007619:Kartagener Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009865:Oocytes; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic; D013081:Sperm Motility
keywords: Hypo-osmotic swelling test; kartagener syndrome; live birth; oocyte vitrification; successful ICSI