Mid-Day,
BY A STAFF REPORTER
EVERY man, no matter what his medical problem,
can father a child with his own sperm, according to Dr
Aniruddha Malpani, a city-based doctor and member of the
European Society for Human Reproduction.
The new technique, called TSEICSI (pronounced 'sexy'),
is being offered by the Malpani Infertility Clinic and
involves sperm extraction with intracytoplasmic sperm
injection.
It is a technique in which sperms are extracted from
the testes of an azoospermic man and injected into the
wife's ova. Dr Malpani told MID-DAY that it was formerly
believed that sperm has to undergo a maturation process
before they could fertilise an egg. However, using microinjection,
it is possible to fertilise eggs even with testicular
sperms.
This technique, first pioneered in Belgium, has now
been made available in India with the help of the largest
IVF clinic in the UK, the Midland Fertility Services,
said Dr Malpani.
Malpani said that a patient of his opted for TSEICSI.
Minor surgery was carried out to extract sperm from
his testes, which were then injected into each of his
wife's eggs.
Of the 24 eggs injected, four fertilised and two two-cell
embryos were replaced into his wife's uterus. The woman
is now pregnant, and this has been confirmed by an ultrasound
scan, Dr Malpani said.
Malpani said this was a major advance in the treatment
of male infertility.
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