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Female Fertility: Implications to Management of Male Factor

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The evaluation has undergone an evolution with several time-honored standard tests becoming extinct and new ones being utilized in their place. The postcoital (Sims-Huner) test to assess pre-ovulatory cervical mucus quality and the presence of motile sperm within it has been abandoned as it lacks clinical validity (Practice Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 2006; Helmerhorst et al. 2009). The test had poor reproducibility and even poorer predictive value. Treating patients with abnormal test results with intrauterine insemination (IUI) did not improve cumulative pregnancy rates.

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Goldberg, J.M., Catenacci, M. (2011). Female Fertility: Implications to Management of Male Factor. In: Sabanegh, E. (eds) Male Infertility. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-193-6_7

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