Clinical Study

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

Table 2

Motility results with frozen-thawed spermatozoa on the moment of ICSI in both groups (Group I, when spermatozoa reached some kind of motility and Group II, after culture, with the peaked). Values are mean ± SD.

Time of in vitro culturePercentagea of spermatozoa that were motile
Group 1Group 2

12 ± 23.3 ± 3
28.2 ± 2.5a4 ± 5
411.8 ± 4
618.6 ± 3.6a
815 ± 18
1210 ± 5
245 ± 10

a 𝑃 < 0 . 0 1 .