The Relationship between the Mobility of Sperm on Pregnancy Results by Intrauterine Insemination

Subject Areas : Journal of Animal Biology

Elnaz Lak ¹ , Fatemeh Shahmolaghamsari ² , Kamran Nasirzadeh ³ , Mahshid Elahi ⁴

1 - Departemant of Reproduction Biology, Research and Treatment Infertility Center, ACACER,Khouzestan, Ahwaz, Iran
2 - Research and Treatment Infertility Center, ACACER,Khouzestan, Ahwaz, Iran
3 - Research and Treatment Infertility Center, ACACER,Khouzestan, Ahwaz, Iran
4 - Research and Treatment Infertility Center, ACACER,Khouzestan, Ahwaz, Iran

Received: 2018-12-14 Accepted : 2019-04-09 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: IUI, Sperm mobility, Pregnancy rates, Abortion rates, Birth rates,

Abstract :

Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is the first line of infertile couple treatment for its inexpensive and non-invasive. There is a wide range of indications like infertility with male causes, cervical-associated causes, and unknown causes for intrauterine sperm injection. Meanwhile, the main parameters of sperm such as count, mobility, and morphology of sperm play a key role in the success of this method. One of the significant problems in the quality of sperm is the reduced mobility of sperms. Based on the WHO, the mobility under 50%, concentration over 20 million, and morphology over 4% are considered as Astenoaspermia.  This study was conducted on the effectiveness of mobility on the outcome of pregnancy with IUI among the infertile couples referring to Jahad Daneshgahi infertility center. A number of 215 samples were divided in three groups of mobility over 70% (normospermia), mobility between 50% and 70% (normospermia) and mobility under 50% (astenoaspermia). The sperms were prepared with SU. The studies indicated that on sperm mobility after preparing had significant increase in all groups. Ovarian stimulations were performed based on the international protocol and the prepared suspension sperm was injected slowly into the uterus with Catheter. The results of pregnancy in term of pregnancy rates, abortion rates, and birth rates were evaluated and analyzed statistically. The results indicated that mobility has no contribution in the significant increase of pregnancy outcomes due to intrauterine insemination.

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