A single cut-off value of sperm DNA fragmentation testing does not fit all

Chak-Lam Cho¹, Ashok Agarwal², Ahmad Majzoub³, Sandro C Esteves^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
² American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ ANDROFERT, Andrology and Human Reproduction Clinic, Referral Center for Male Reproduction, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Surgery (Division of Urology), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Editorial

Chak-Lam Cho et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S501-S503.

doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.08.12.

Chak-Lam Cho¹, Ashok Agarwal², Ahmad Majzoub³, Sandro C Esteves^{4

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6}

¹ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
² American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ ANDROFERT, Andrology and Human Reproduction Clinic, Referral Center for Male Reproduction, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Surgery (Division of Urology), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Conflict of interest statement

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

Evaluation of sperm chromatin structure and DNA strand breaks is an important part of clinical male fertility assessment.
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