ICSI Benefits
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection offers you and your partner a chance to have a baby, even with severe male infertility issues. ICSI benefits include helping you get pregnant even if you are dealing with one or more of the following conditions:
- Low sperm count
- Physical blockage
- Poor sperm motility (movement) or morphology (shape)
- Having tried IVF without success
- Desire for pregnancy post-vasectomy
What Is the Success Rate for ICSI-IVF?
The ICSI procedure fertilizes 50 to 80 percent of eggs. You might assume all eggs get fertilized with ICSI-IVF, but they don’t. Fertilization isn’t guaranteed even when a sperm is injected into the egg.
Remember that fertilization rates don’t tell you the clinical pregnancy or live birth rates.
Is ICSI better than IVF?
It depends. Research shows that IVF is just as effective as the ICSI procedure, where sperm is injected directly into an egg, when there is no male infertility factor. Cumulative live birth rates in Victoria were similar for IVF and ICSI in these circumstances.
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