IUI versus IVF versus ICSI

Many infertile men get extremely poor quality treatment, and this is because most IVF specialists have no idea how to treat them. This is why there is so much confusion as to whether the right treatment for the man with a low sperm count is IUI, IVF or ICSI - and the tragedy is that often doctors are as confused as patients.For one thing, most gynecologists aren't able to interpret a sperm test report properly; and to make matters worse, the quality control in sperm testing laboratories is pretty abysmal. Many labs still don ’t even know that a normal sperm count is more than 15 million – and they still print the normal range as being between 60 to 120 million per ml. This obviously confuses a lot of patients , and many gynecologists start “treating” men with a completely normal sperm count of 20 million per ml with medicines, because they label them as being infertile !Even worse, lots of men with low sperm counts or poor motility are treated with IUI. They're told, " We'll wash your sperm, and after cleaning and concentrating them, we will put them directly into the uterus , so they'll be able to reach and fertilise the egg more easily." This just doesn't work, simply because these are functionally incompetent sperms. The fact that they're not motile means sperm production is defective, and that even the ones which are motile may not work properly. No amount of “ scrubbing and processing “ them is going to make them able to fertilize the egg, which is ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs