Are there hidden problems with ICSI?
Filed under: Infertility — Alan @ 3:08 am
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here is much ongoing controversy about the relative advantages and perils of ICSI, or Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. A recent study carried out at the Institute of Child Health in London seems to confirm one of the perils.
Children conceived through ICSI are more likely to have a fertility problem, which is the problem that ICSI was meant to solve in the first place.
The procedure involves injecting a live sperm into a mature egg with a micro-needle, and it has proven effective in many cases where fertilization and pregnancy seemed impossible with the ‘conventional’ approach. However, with widespread use of ICSI, won’t the fertility of future males be in jeopardy?
As a reminder that males are not the only ones with a problem, St. Andrews and Edinburgh universities have published the results of a study on female fertility. This one concluded that of the two million eggs a woman is born with, she’ll have only about 12% of that number by the time she reaches the age of 30.
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