Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 802-807 , December 2009

Outcome of ICSI using zona pellucida-bound spermatozoa and conventionally selected spermatozoa

  • Daniela Paes de Almeida Ferreira Braga

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • Sapientiae Institute–Educational and Research Center in Assisted Reproduction, Rua Vieira Maciel, 62 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • ,
  • Assumpto Iaconelli Jr

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • Sapientiae Institute–Educational and Research Center in Assisted Reproduction, Rua Vieira Maciel, 62 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • ,
  • Rita de Cássia Sávio Figueira

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • ,
  • Camila Madaschi

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • ,
  • Luciana Semião-Francisco

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • ,
  • Edson Borges Jr

      Affiliations

    • Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center, Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4545 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • Sapientiae Institute–Educational and Research Center in Assisted Reproduction, Rua Vieira Maciel, 62 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence:

Received 22 November 2008 ,Revised 22 November 2008 ,Accepted 22 June 2009.

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 Edson Borges Jr obtained his MD degree in 1984 at the University of Campinas, his first PhD in urology in 2005 at the Federal University of São Paulo and his second PhD in gynaecology in 2007 at the Botucatu Medical School in São Paulo State University. At present he is the founder partner and managing director of Fertility – Assisted Fertilization Center in São Paulo, Brazil and scientific director at Sapientiae Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr Edson Borges Jr

PII: S1472-6483(09)00084-4

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.09.020

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 802-807 , December 2009

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