Clinical Study

A Simple Sperm DNA Toroid Integrity Test and Risk of Miscarriage

Figure 2

Pregnancy outcomes and the percentages of sperm with normal toroid assessed using the simple sperm toroid integrity (STI) test procedure in the male partner of patients undergoing IVF with ICSI treatment. Mean percentage of cases with clinical pregnancy and live-birth outcome (73.6 ± 1.7%) was higher () when compared with either miscarriage cases (51.2 ± 6.6%) or nonpregnant cases (60.9 ± 4.8%).