So as you may recall from Question 53, ICSI is that crazy technique that involves taking a sperm and inserting it into the egg to induce fertilization.....hard to believe that it works but there you have it.Sometimes it is not that easy to figure out who needs ICSI and who doesn't. I have a nice couple that first came to me a few years ago with mild male factor infertility as the apparent cause. Ultimately they decided to pursue Natural Cycle IVF and were successful on the 2nd attempt of Natural Cycle IVF with ICSI. We used ICSI as they had no...
jeudi 21 juillet 2011
mercredi 13 juillet 2011
Although I am not an early adopter of technology, I am not a Luddite either. I have written this blog for a couple of years now and I think that at least 3 other people (besides my Mother) read my posts. I have usually focused on questions from our book on infertility but have commented on a range of other topics ranging from Princeton's epic win over Hahvahd at Yale earlier this year that secured an NCAA invitation for the men's basketball team to the reasons that some clinics fail to offer Natural Cycle IVF and so on.I am now trying to figure...
mercredi 6 juillet 2011
In medical school at Duke I took a class in reproductive physiology taught by Dr. Patricia Saling. She was very engaging lecturer and the class was very interesting. During the class we had to memorize the sequence of events that included the fusing of the egg and sperm membranes, the release of the enzymes in the sperm acrosome and a bunch of other steps that I no longer remember. The possibility that you could get a baby from ramming a sperm into...
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