Morphological diagnosis of sperm cells

Morphological diagnosis using a high-power X6000 magnification light microscope (MSOME)

Who is recommended to undergo a morphological diagnosis?

Patients who failed In-Vitro fertilization (IVF) using the classic method or the micromanipulation method (ICSI), on an unexplained background or on the background of low sperm quality.

Couples who suffer from recurrent miscarriages during the first trimester due to an unknown cause, when the female factor was eliminated.

Patients, who in their normal sperm test, had a result of 0% morphology.

Patients who experience repeated failures with insemination treatments and wish to decide how to proceed.

Patients who failed In-Vitro fertilization treatments (IVF) using ova donations.

What is a morphologic diagnosis?

The morphologic diagnosis is done using a special enhanced magnification microscope (times 6000) using Nomarski Optics in which 150 motile sperm cells are scanned randomly about which the question raised will be: what is the rate of sperm cell with a normal nucleus? The purpose of the diagnosis is to thoroughly check the morphological quality of the sperm cell in order to decide proper treatment methods and in some cases of fertility treatment failures or miscarriages, to understand whether the failure was due to the poor quality of the sperm cell head, which cannot be diagnosed properly in the usual sperm test. When a low result is received in this test, it is possible to consider the selection of individual sperm cells with a normal nucleus. These cells will be injected into the ova using the micromanipulation method of In-Vitro fertilization (IVF). Occasionally the results of the diagnosis will point to 0 sperm cells with a normal nucleus. In these cases it is possible that a great deal of effort will be invested on the day of extracting the ova, to scan several thousand cells, in the hopes to find at least a few single cells with