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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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