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| Artificial Insemination | Artificial Insemination (AI) is truly considered to be the least complex of all the assisted reproductive technologies available, and it is usually tried first in some infertility cases, which are not much complicated.
There are several types of artificial insemination (depending on where the sperm is placed) available:
1. Intracervical Insemination – with the help of an injection the sperm is placed into the cervix, which is located at the opening of the uterus;
2. Intrauterine Insemination – with the help of an injection the sperm is placed directly into the uterus. This type of Artificial Insemination is considered to be the most widespread;
3. Intrafollicular Insemination – with the help of an injection the sperm is placed into the ovarian follicle;
4. intratubal Insemination – with the help of an injection the sperm is placed into one of the Fallopian tubes.
It depends on the kind of infertility as well as on some other factors, which type of Artificial insemination will be applied.
To the possible indications for the Artificial Insemination performing generally belong:
Male Partner:
If a man is not able to ejaculate into his female partner’s vagina;
In case if a man suffers from such diseases as diabetes, multiples sclerosis, etc, the application of some type of Artificial Insemination may possibly become necessary;
If a man injured his spinal cord;
In case if a man suffers from retrograde ejaculation;
In condition, when the man’s sperm enters his urinary bladder, instead of getting down toward his urethra;
If a man had undergone some kind of surgery, which destroyed the value, that prevented the backflow of his sperm into the urethra;
This can also be a kind of a side – effect of some drugs, taken previously for the infertility treatment purposes;
If a man has a lower sperm count, which is necessary for the successful fertilization;
If a man’s sperm is of a poor quality;
In case if a man experiences some mechanical difficulties with sexual intercourse, for example he may have some structural abnormality of his penis because of some trauma or injury, or if there is some inborn defect;
Men, who wish to have their sperm stored before they undergo the influence of either radiotherapy or chemotherapy, which may possibly cause some abnormalities of the sperm;
If a patient wants to have the vasectomy procedure performed;
If a man wants his semen sample to be able to use, at any appropriate for treatment time, when he is not available. However, it is really frustrating, if a husband or a male partner is not available during the most optimal time for the artificial insemination procedure, therefore, it helps to preserve time as well as money from being waisted because of some unforeseen circumstances.
Female Partner
Some kind of cervical mucus insufficiency;
If a woman’s mucus is of a poor quality;
In case if there are any structural abnormalities of a woman’s reproductive tract.
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