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Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a specialised laboratory technique that has revolutionised IVF treatment for male factor infertility.

ICSI is conducted in the laboratory following the egg collection process. It entails injecting a single sperm directly into the cytoplasm, the fluid content of the egg cell.

Using a glass pipette finer than a human hair, a single sperm is carefully collected and precisely injected into the egg. Following fertilisation, the resulting embryos are transferred to the woman's womb. Apart from this specific laboratory procedure, your treatment experience remains consistent with patients undergoing conventional IVF.

Time-lapse technology is included in all ICSI cycles as an embryo selection tool. This technology allows us to maintain the necessary physiological conditions required by a living embryo while they are in the IVF laboratory. It has an incorporated camera that continuously captures images and records them as a video of the embryonic development. This system allows the embryologist to monitor embryo cell divisions while the embryos in order to select the embryos with the most potential for transfer into the womb.

ICSI treatment is suitable for couples who have a male factor infertility problem such as:

• Low sperm count

• Low sperm morphology

• Low sperm motility

• For cases when sperm needs to be surgically collected

• Egg donation cycles