Abstract Although the technique of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has been a revolution in the alleviation of male infertility, the use of testicular sperm for ICSI was a formerly unseen breakthrough in the treatment of the azoospermic man with primary testicular failure. At the clinical level, different procedures of testicular...
How successful is TESE-ICSI in couples with non-obstructive azoospermia?
STUDY QUESTION: What are the chances of a couple with infertility due to non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) having their genetically own child by testicular sperm extraction combined with ICSI (TESE-ICSI)? SUMMARY ANSWER: Candidate TESE-ICSI patients with NOA should be counselled that, when followed-up longitudinally, only a minority (13.4%) of men embarking...