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Do Fertility Clinics Overuse The Sperm-injection Technique?
Posted on Mon Jul 23, 2007
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that fertility clinics might be overusing a sperm-injection technique that costs infertile couples an extra grand and a half, without always increasing the overall success rate for healthy births.
The sperm-injection technique, also known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) , ensures that a sperm gets into an egg, and works most efficiently for couples in which the man has defective sperm or a low sperm count. The study shows that many clinics are also using ICSI to treat other causes of infertility.
Dr. Tarun Jain, the study’s lead author from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that in 2004, the use of ICSI produced about 31 percent of live births compared to the 33 percent produced by those who didn’t use this method. This suggests that some couples might benefit more from the use of other assisted reproductive technology methods, such as IVF and artificial insemination .
Researchers also found that children produced from the use of the sperm-injection technique had a higher risk of birth defects. However, this may be explained by abnormalities in the father's sperm and not as a side effect of the technique.
Source:Associated Press
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