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Q: IUI: intrauterine insemination
asked by: DoctorQuestion on February 12th, 2007
Just wondering if we could freeze multiple samples of my husbands sperm and then combine them all together to do IUI so we'd have more sperm being injected. We are paying for all of this out of pocket since our insurance doesn't cover it and we are trying to be cost effective.


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on February 23rd, 2007
Infertility Answer A2375
The concentration of living and mobile spermatozoids in the sperm is more important than the total amount of sperm. You may collect more samples of your husband’s sperm, freeze them and use them later. But before completing intrauterine insemination (IUI), the spermatozoids should be concentrated so that the percentage of living and moveable spermatozoids in the sperm that will be injected in the uterus is as large as possible. All these procedures (collecting sperm samples, freezing them, concentrating the sperm and sperm injection) are done in special institutions that specialize in assisted reproduction.


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