Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology & Andrology, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of IVF and Reproductive Genetics, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Comment

Murad M Basar et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S574-S576.

doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.04.40.

¹ Department of Urology & Andrology, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of IVF and Reproductive Genetics, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

It is high time for clinical application of sperm DNA fragmentation testing.
Cho CL, Agarwal A, Majzoub A, Esteves SC. Cho CL, et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S577-S579. doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.06.16. Transl Androl Urol. 2017. PMID: 29082964 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios.
Agarwal A, Majzoub A, Esteves SC, Ko E, Ramasamy R, Zini A. Agarwal A, et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2016 Dec;5(6):935-950. doi: 10.21037/tau.2016.10.03. Transl Androl Urol. 2016. PMID: 28078226 Free PMC article. Review.

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