ICSI outcomes for infertile men with severe or complete asthenozoospermia

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of couples with severe or complete asthenozoospermia

Characteristics	Ejaculated spermatozoa			TESE	P value^*
Characteristics	Ep	En	Ei	TESE	P value^*
Number of couples	25	43	11	18	-
Age of husband (years) mean ± SD	32.16 ± 5.40	30.14 ± 4.28	32.27 ± 3.00	30.56 ± 3.49	0.213
Age of wife (years) mean ± SD	29.48 ± 3.50	29.05 ± 4.40	30.09 ± 3.24	30.33 ± 4.16	0.671
Past pregnancy of wife, n (%)
Primary	19 (76.00)	35 (81.40)	9 (81.80)	15 (83.30)	0.945
Secondary	6 (24.00)	8 (18.60)	2 (18.20)	3 (16.70)	0.945
BMI of husband (kg/m²) mean ± SD	24.03 ± 4.23	25.83 ± 3.68	23.26 ± 4.00	26.41 ± 3.98	0.057
Testicular volume (mL), mean ± SD
Left	15.36 ± 2.87	16.09 ± 3.48	14.91 ± 3.89	16.61 ± 3.65	0.485
Right	15.44 ± 3.72	16.33 ± 3.53	14.73 ± 4.27	16.51 ± 3.69	0.443
Sexual hormone of husband, mean ± SD
FSH (IU/L)	5.49 ± 2.48	5.51 ± 4.79	6.18 ± 3.74	5.14 ± 2.92	0.926
LH (IU/L)	5.43 ± 2.34	6.75 ± 5.79	6.97 ± 2.85	5.85 ± 3.68	0.623
Total testosterone (ng/dL)	478.27 ± 230.43	527.09 ± 281.67	428.27 ± 307.41	517.77 ± 279.20	0.719
Prolactin (ng/mL)	10.74 ± 4.43	12.47 ± 6.12	11.42 ± 5.79	10.56 ± 4.49	0.603

BMI body mass index, Ei ejaculated immotile spermatozoa, En ejaculated non-progressively motile spermatozoa, Ep ejaculated progressively motile spermatozoa, FSH follicle-stimulating hormone, LH luteinizing hormone, SD standard deviation, TESE testicular spermatozoa
^*There were two types of P values, one for the Kruskal–Wallis test for continuous variables and another for the Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables

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