What is ICSI in IVF Pregnancy?
Intracytoplasmic Sperm injection (ICSI) is an advanced procedure of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) that can help address major male fertility factors and certain female fertility issues. ICSI can be either performed as an individual procedure or can be an extended procedure of IVF. Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) is another extended procedure of IVF and ICSI that allows morphological selection of sperm for the fertilization procedure. The basic idea of IVF is to perform the fertilization process in-vitro. In a normal fertilization procedure of IVF, the eggs are retrieved from the mature follicles and allowed to fuse with the extracted sperm in an incubated condition. However, sometimes this fusion may not occur precisely leading to poor quality embryos or even failure of fertilization. This problem may be because of varied reasons: Low sperm count (oligospermia), less motile sperms, or poor sperm morphology When the sperm numbers are normal, ...