Artificial+Insemination

Artificial insemination Artificial insemination is a term that covers a range of techniques of placing sperm into the female genital tract. Such inseminations may include intravaginal insemination, intracervical insemination, intrauterine insemination, intraFallopian insemination and intraperitoneal insemination, where sperm are placed inside the pelvis near the mouth of the Fallopian tubes and ovaries). The most commonly used techniques are intrauterine insemination followed by intracervical and intravaginal insemination.  Artificial insemination may use the husbands sperm (AIH) or [|donor sperm (AID)].  Who might benefit from insemination?  There are selected groups of patients to whom sperm donation is recommended.  Pasted from <[]>
 * Men who are unable to ejaculate inside their wife’s vagina for whatever reasons. This is the classical indication. Causes for ejaculation failure include diabetes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and retrograde ejaculation, where sperm are released backward into the bladder instead of urethra. Retrograde ejaculation may be due to diabetes, trauma or operation in the bladder neck or a side effect of certain drugs.
 * Men with mildly low [|sperm count], poor quality sperm or [|antisperm antibodies].
 * Men who wish to freeze their sperm for possible future use before [|vasectomy], [|chemotherapy] or [|radiotherapy] for cancer.
 * Women with [|mild endometriosis].
 * Women with [|cervical mucus hostility] or poor cervical mucus.
 * Couples with [|unexplained infertility].
 * Some infertility clinics may offer intrauterine insemination of a HIV negative woman with washed and prepared sperm of her HIV positive husband/partner.