Clinical Study

Increased Fertilization Rates after In Vitro Culture of Frozen-Thawed Testicular Immotile Sperm in Nonobstructive Azoospermic Patients

Table 1

General data.

Group IGroup II š‘ƒ value

No. of cases
No. of cycles
Female age
Male age
Days of gonadotrophin stimulation10.5 Ā± 2.212.5 Ā± 3.2NS
No. of ampoules/cycle26.7 Ā± 10.131.7 Ā± 9.1NS
Estradiol level on HCG day (pmol/L)1395 Ā± 15711237 Ā± 1071NS
Endometrial thickness (mm)10.2 Ā± 2.49.8 Ā± 2.2NS
Oocytes/cycle11.2 Ā± 6.89.8 Ā± 7.6NS
MII oocytes377/495 (76.2%)295/377 (78.2%)NS

NS: not statistically different.
Values are mean Ā± SD. NS: not significant among all subgroups by the X 2 double classification test, Fisherā€™s exact test or the Students t-test where appropriated.