Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: a requisite to infertility practice

Gulfam Ahmad^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Physiology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

Comment

Gulfam Ahmad. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S685-S687.

doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.03.74.

Gulfam Ahmad^{1

2}

¹ College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Physiology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Use of sperm DNA fragmentation testing and testicular sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
Cho CL, Agarwal A, Majzoub A, Esteves SC. Cho CL, et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S688-S690. doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.06.13. Transl Androl Urol. 2017. PMID: 29082938 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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