01 Nov
Your doctor may recommend ICSI if:
- you have a very low sperm count
- your sperm are abnormally shaped (poor morphology) or they don’t move normally (poor motility)
- you’ve had IVF previously and none, or very few of the eggs fertilized.
- you need sperm to be collected surgically from the testicles or epididymis (a narrow tube inside the scrotum where sperm are stored and matured); for example because you have had a vasectomy, or you have a blockage that prevents sperm reaching the ejaculate, caused by disease, injury, or a genetic condition, or because you have an extremely low sperm count
- you’re using frozen sperm in your treatment which isn’t of the highest quality, especially if it was stored because your fertility was under threat, or following a surgical sperm retrieval.
- you’re having embryo testing for a genetic condition, and sperm sticking to the outside of the eggs would interfere with the results.
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