100
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2007
Primary Completion Date
September 30, 2007
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2007
Diff-Quik staining for morphology evaluation
"Papanicolaou stain (haematoxylin, orange G6, and EA50) gives a clear difference between basophilic and acidophilic cell constituents and thereby enables a detailed examination of chromatin pattern, which is useful in the evaluation of sperm morphology and assessment of presence of immature spermatozoa. Cytoplasmic staining can vary between red and green dependent on ionic strength, pH, and composition of the cell department and the stain (OG6 and EA50).~Morphological assessment for processed portions of semen. As separation process has to minimize the morphological abnormal sperm."
Motility Evaluation for grade A and B
"The better separation method will insure more progressive sperms after processing.~Grading using A and B scale scored by (WHO 2010) references."
Concentration (mil/ml)
count of isolated sperms Using Makler chamber for count of sperm for each portion post processing.
24 H half life
"percentage of active motile to non motile sperms.~Microscopic examination for each sample after 24 hours incubation, to evaluate the progressively motile sperm and those non progressive or non motile."
48 H half life
"percentage of active motile to non motile sperms.~Microscopic examination for each sample after 48 hours incubation, to evaluate the progressively motile sperm and those non progressive or non motile."
HBA Testing
"The Hyaluronic Binding Assay (HBA®) is an important diagnostic tool for suspected male infertility in the analysis of semen. In a matter of minutes the HBA® slide provides an answer to the proportion of mature binding spermatozoa in the sample (The HBA® score %).~By using HBA slide we can count the physiologically active sperms at each sample and calculate percentage of active sperms with reference to post processing count from 3rd investigating arm."
Bacterial contamination
Routine bacterial culture using Blood Agar culture plates for 10 micron finally washed samples, to confirm presence of any bacteria contamination caused by carry over during processing.
Al Baraka Fertility Hospital, Manama
Ibn Sina IVF Center- Ibn Sina Hospital, Sohag
Ahmad Mustafa Mohamed Metwalley
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