To present and assess the efficacy of combination of microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for the treatment of infertility due to unreconstructable obstructive azoospermia or congenital
bilateral
agenesis of vas deferens (CBAVD), MESA was performed in the 45 husbands (16 CBAVD, 29 unreconstructable genital tract obstruction), followed by ICSI of oocytes recovered from the wives hyperstimulated by GnRH agonist in combination with hMG and
FSH.
Cleaving embryos were transfered to the uterine cavity or follopian tube (ZIFT) 18 or 24 hours after ICSI procedure.
In 45 cycles of MESA, 492 oocytes complexes were recovered. ICSI was carried out on 355 metaphase Ⅱ oocytes and 226 oocytes (63.7%) showed normal two pronucleus fertilization. After 198 embryos were transferred in 43 cycles, an average of 5 per
cycle,
20 patients presented a positive HCG and intrauterine pregnancy was confirmed by US.
So, the clinical ongoing pregnancy rate per transfer was 46.5%.
Until now, 8 patients have given birth to 9 babies, 5 male and 4 female, including 1 twin. The babies were all healthy except 1 twin female baby. There was 1 miscarriage at 7 weeks and chromosomal study of abortus revealed as 45X, monosomy.
These results suggested that it was possible to achieve high normal fertilization and pregnancy rate by ICSI using epididymal sperm.
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