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Table 2 Clinical outcomes of transfer cycles according to sperm DFI

From: Effects of the sperm DNA fragmentation index on the clinical and neonatal outcomes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles

 

<  15%

15–30%

>  30%

p-Value

Number of oocyte retrieval cycles

692

953

422

–

Average number of MII oocytes

7.6 ± 4.6a

8.2 ± 4.7a

8.2 ± 4.9

0.009

Number of fertilized oocytes

4209 (80.3)b

6276 (79.9)

2754 (79.9)

0.846

Number of transfer cycles

344 (49.7)a,c

558 (58.6)c

237 (56.2)a

0.002

Average number of transferred embryos

1.9 ± 0.4

1.9 ± 0.3

1.9 ± 0.3

0.621

Average number of frozen embryos

2.33 ± 2.30

2.49 ± 2.36

2.43 ± 2.31

0.276

Number of biochemical pregnancy

247 (71.8)

403 (72.2)

175 (73.8)

0.854

Number of clinical pregnancy

241 (70.1)

386 (69.2)

168 (70.9)

0.884

Number of miscarriage

23 (9.5)

32 (8.3)

20 (11.9)

0.408

Number of termination of pregnancy

2 (0.8)

5 (1.3)

0 (0.0)

0.423

Number of ongoing pregnancy

216 (89.6)

349 (90.4)

148 (88.1)

0.711

  1. aP < 0.05, cP < 0.001, bvalues in parenthesis are expressed in percentage