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Numération, mobilité, térastospermie et résultats en AMP
Sperm count, motility, morphology and results in medically assisted procreation
Andrologie volume 7, pages 466–476 (1997)
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Depuis l’apparition des différentes méthodes de procréation assistée, les investigations se sont multipliées pour rechercher des corrélations entre les paramètres du spermes et sa fécondance. Dans cette revue, nous rapportons les résultats des travaux concernant les trois variables spermatiques les plus courament étudiées (numération, mobilité, morphologie) et leur relation aux résultats des différentes méthodes d’AMP (IIU, FIV, ICSI). Si l’étude des caractéristiques du spermogramme demeure l’examen de base dans l’évaluation de la fertilité, cependant, aucune de ces variables considerées separément, ne peut à elle seule présenter une valeur prédictive en raison du caractère multifactoriel du pouvoir fécondant du sperme. Les résultats parfois discordants rélevés dans la littérature, sont en partie dûs aux méthodes d’évaluation non-standardisées des caractéristiques du sperme. D’où la nécessité d’uniformiser les techniques d’analyse afin d’adopter un language commun et pouvoir comparer des résultats.
Abstract
Since the advent of different methods of medically assisted procreation, investigations have increased in search of correlations between sperm parameters and fertilization potential of spermatozoa. This review reports the results of correlations between the three most commonly studied sperm characteristics (sperm count, motility, morphology) and the outcome of different methods procreation (AI, IVF, ICSI). Although sperm analysis remains the basic investigation for the evaluation of fertility, none of the three variables, taken individually, can predict the fertilizing potential of a sample because of the multifactorial character of fertilization.
The contradictory results encountered sometimes in the litterature are partly due to non-standardized evaluation methods of sperm quality. Hence the necessity to standardize investigation techniques so as to use a common language and be able to compare results of different studies.
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Pilikian, S. Numération, mobilité, térastospermie et résultats en AMP. Androl. 7, 466–476 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03035273
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