Text: Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)...
Artist picture of the ICSI procedure
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  • Direct injection of a single sperm into a mature egg.  This procedure is selectively used in cases involving severe oligospermia, involving low sperm counts, motility, or morphology.  This procedure may also be used in cases where there is a history of previous failed fertilization despite normal semen analysis
  • ICSI is required for sperm obtained by sugical sperm collection,  when there are few or or no sperm in semen, or with frozen sperm with low sperm motility after thawing.
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