icsi treatment, ivf procedure

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ICSI Treatment For Infertility

• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, popularly
  known as ICSI is a
• treatment where eggs are fertilized in an IVF
  lab after they have been
• aspirated from the female. The procedure
  requires injecting a single
• healthy sperm into the cytoplasm.
• IVF with ICSI requires using specialized
  micromanipulation tools
• and inverted microscopes that help
  embryologists choose and select
• individual sperm in a specially designed ICSI
  needle.

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• This needle is then passed through the outer
  shell of the egg in order to
• inject the sperm into the inner part of the
  egg. This results in normal
• fertilization in about 75 to 85 of eggs
  that have been injected
• with sperm.

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• However, a woman first must be stimulated with
  medications and have
• an egg retrieval procedure so that several
  eggs can be obtained for in
• vitro fertilization and ICSI.
• Most clinics use ICSI treatment only for severe
  male factor infertility.
• However, it can be used in any case, with
  either gender.
• People who go for ICSI treatment are mostly
  those who suffer from
• severe male factor infertility but do not
  want donor sperm.

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• The ICSI procedure includes holding mature egg
  with a special
• holding pipette. A very delicate, sharp and
  hollow needle is used to
• immobilize and pick up a single sperm.

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• Once the sperm has been picked, the needle is
  then carefully inserted
• through the shell of the egg and in to the
  center of the egg.
• This way the sperm is then injected there into
  the cytoplasm. The eggs
• are analyzed the next morning for evidence
  of normal fertilization.
• For most IVF programs, the fertilization rate is
  of about 70-80 percent.
• This is however, different from pregnancy
  success rates which are
• shown to be higher for IVF with ICSI than IVF
  without ICSI.

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