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Effect Of Oxidative Stress In Semen, Follicular Fluid And Embryo Culture Medium On The Outcome Of Assisted Reproduction, Nooman Sallam, Mostafa Hegab, Fahd Mohamed, Dalal El-Kaffash

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

Background: Although many advances have been made in the field of assisted reproduction, the clinical outcomes remain less than desirable. Oxidative stress has been recently blamed on both male and female partners. Aim of the work: To study the effect of oxidative stress in semen, follicular fluid and embryo culture medium on the outcome of assisted reproduction. Patients and methods:Fifty couples with unexplained infertility were subjected to a combined treatment of IVF and ICSI. Oxidative stress was evaluated by measuring the oxidative-reduction potential (ORP) in the semen sample, follicular fluid pool and spent culture medium of individually IVF cultured embryos …