Poster Viewing Session - Andrology

Sperm selection using magnetic activated cell sorting (MACS) in assisted reproduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…MACS efficiently reduces sperm DNA fragmentation levels [13,19,29,30,40,47,48] and effectively separates apoptotic from non-apoptotic spermatozoa [6, 8, 11, 14, 17-20, 28, 29, 34, 37-39, 44]. This selection leads to an improvement in sperm quality and functionality [14,19,23] because MACS positively affects sperm motility [5,8,29,34,38,41] and morphology as determined by the sperm deformity index [2-4, 38, 39, 41]. Several authors reported an improvement in fertilization rates [12,36] and embryo quality [1,9,40] because the best sperms were selected using MACS compared with standard selection methods.…”

Epidemiology and Clinical Profile of Male Infertility at the Fertilization Centre IRIFIV in Casablanca, Morocco, around 295 Cases

“…Read and informed consent was obtained from all patients included before using their records in this study. The studied parameters were among others epidemiological (age, occupation, risk factors, marital status), clinical (type of infertility, duration of infertility, antecedents, examination data) and paraclinical (seminogram, sperm culture, ultrasound of scrotal contents, infectious test (ECBU, serology, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma by PCR), biopsy testicular in some cases of severe oligozoospermia or azoospermia, determination of FSH, LH and testosterone according to the enzyme immunoassay method [6], deferentography in some patients who had a strong suspicion of excretory azoospermia.…”