Treatment of infertility because of oligoasthenoteratospermia by transcervical intrauterine insemination of motile spermatozoa

• Published in: Fertility and sterility Vol. 45; no. 3; p. 388
• Main Authors: Hoing, L M, Devroey, P, Van Steirteghem, A C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01-03-1986
• Subjects: Female; Humans; Infertility - therapy; Infertility, Male - etiology; Insemination, Artificial - methods; Insemination, Artificial, Homologous - methods; Male; Ovulation Detection; Sperm Motility
• ISSN: 0015-0282
• DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(16)49222-8

Fifty-three couples with longstanding infertility, the woman being potentially fertile and the man having poor-quality semen, were admitted to a therapeutic trial. A high intrauterine instillation of a washed motile fraction of spermatozoa from the subfertile man was performed in the woman on the day of ovulation. After 130 treatment cycles, 9 of the 53 women had conceived, all within 3 cycles. This simple and painless procedure can be considered an alternative treatment in oligoasthenoteratospermia.