In cryptozoospermia or severe oligozoospermia is sperm freezing useful?

Table 1 General characteristics and sperm parameters of the analyzed population

	Secured ICSI group (n = 84)			Non secured ICSI group (n = 85)			p-value
	Mean	Median	min-max	Mean	Median	min-max
Female age (year)	30.45	30.50	21–40	32.26	32.00	22–42	0.0069**
Male age (year)	33.57	33,00	23–56	35.52	35.00	22–49	0.0254*
Sperm count (×10⁶/mL)	0.192	0.006	0–1	0.399	0.200	0–1	0.000263***
Cryptozoospermia number of patients	19/84 (22.6%)			17/85 (20.0%)			0.819
Sperm count (×10⁶/mL)	0.0003	0.0002	0–0.0009	0.0002	0.0001	0–0.0009	0.187
Very Severe oligozoospermia number of patients	37/84 (44.0%)			13/85 (15.3%)			0.0000863***
Sperm count (×10⁶/mL)	0.0095	0.0040	0.001–0.006	0.0030	0.0020	0.001–0.007	0.0177*
Severe oligozoospermia number of patients	28/84 (33.3%)			55/85 (64.7%)			0.0000867***
Sperm count (×10⁶/mL)	0.564	0.600	0.1–1	0.616	0.800	0.1–1	0.494

Secured ICSI: ICSI with previously frozen sperm; non secured ICSI: ICSI without previously frozen sperm.
*Significant p values at 5%, **Significant p value at 1%, ***Significant p value at 0.1%.

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