In All Probability the biggest advance in attended fertility intervention since In Vitro fertilization, Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection involves injecting a single healthy sperm into the center of an egg, called the cytoplasm.

To evaluate whether Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection is something you will profit from, an embryologist will examine the male sperm under a microscope and determine whether ICSI could increase you and your partner's prospects of having a baby. Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection is commonly executed on men whose sperm number is very low, cannot have poor mobility or are strangely shaped.

This procedure is based entirely around the man who may have problems with a low sperm count, bad sperm movement or those that have unusually shaped sperm. It could also be because there are high amounts of anti-sperm antibodies in the semen or the man and his partner have tried previous IVF procedures but few or no eggs have fertilized. There are other circumstances but these are the most popular causes.

As with In Vitro fertilization, the female partner will have to receive fertility drugs to activate the ovaries to make more eggs which are then carefully collected at specific time. These are then fertilized with the man's sperm and planted back in the womb in exactly the same way as for established IVF. Healthy fertilized eggs leftover from the process can be preserved for future use if required. Once the procedure has been accomplished, the clinic will coordinate another examination to dispense a pregnancy test. The day the woman's eggs are gathered, the man must make a fresh amount of sperm. The sperm are then injected into the eggs to fertilize them before they are located back in the womb.

Although it has been used for many years, Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection is still a relatively new fertility treatment and some refers have been shown regarding the possibility of harming the egg when the sperm is injected into it, leading to possible birth defects. UP-to-the-minute research in the UK has shown that at the age of five, the children born by Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection and In Vitro Fertilization are performing just as well as the ones who were conceived by nature. Another concern is that infertile males could pass on their infertility to their sons born through ICSI, through their genes, but on that point there has been no definitive result to this yet.

The use of ICSI has assisted many thousands of couples have a baby where the man has a low sperm count or other sperm associated problems. The reasons inherent in a low sperm count can be genetic and passed down via the male line, so a man would be advised to have a blood test carried out prior to have Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection treatment.

The biggest advantage of Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection intervention is that the sperm are not forced to swim to and permeate the egg, which boosts the chances of conception enormously.

However, the skill of the clinic is also essential if Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection is to be productive so is the physical age of the woman, but rates around the globe continue to increase as the intervention improves and becomes more widespread. Fortunately, age is not of such great concern for men as the sperm used is always freshly produced and only the healthiest used, however, sperm output does drop-off as the man ages.