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Relationship of the Human Cumulus-Free Oocyte Maturational Profile with In Vitro Outcome Parameters After Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

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Purpose: We investigated whether the human oocyte maturational profile at the removal of cumulus/corona cells affects the fertilization rate and subsequent embryo quality after intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Methods: A total of 1011 oocytes from 150 cycles was included in this retrospective analysis. Cumulus-free oocytes that were in prophase or metaphase I of meiosis at the removal of cumulus/corona cells were incubated in vitro until they reached metaphase II (in vitro-matured oocytes) and were then immediately injected with a single spermatozoa. Oocytes that were in metaphase II at the removal of cumulus/corona cells (MII oocytes) received sperm injection after 3–4 hr of preinjection incubation.

Results: The fertilization rate of the MII oocytes was significantly higher than that of in vitro-matured oocytes (81 vs 62%; P < 0.001). The cleavage rates were similar in the two groups (MII oocytes, 94%; in vitro-matured oocytes, 91%). However, MII oocytes had significantly higher percentages of good-quality embryos (grade 1–3 embryos, 87 vs 58%, P < 0.001) and embryos with high cumulative embryo scores (score 10–32 embryos, 62 vs 33%, P < 0.001). The mean cumulative embryo score of MII oocytes after fertilization was also higher than that of in vitro-matured oocytes (12.1 ± 3.8 vs 8.8 ± 3.4; P = 0.014).

Conclusions: MII oocytes that extruded the first polar body at the removal of cumulus/corona cells had better fertilization rates and embryo morphology than in vitro-matured oocytes that extruded the first polar body following the removal of cumulus/corona cells and in vitro culture.

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Huang, FJ., Chang, SY., Tsai, MY. et al. Relationship of the Human Cumulus-Free Oocyte Maturational Profile with In Vitro Outcome Parameters After Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. J Assist Reprod Genet 16, 483–487 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020551000150

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