Table 3.
Medians and 95 % confidence intervals in the mild to moderate oligozoospermic group (sperm concentration 5–15 × 106/ml; n = 48)
| Semen parameter | Median | 95 % confidence interval for repeatability | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual: Operator 1 | Manual: Operator 2 | Manual average | 95 % CI for manual median | CASA | 95 % CI for CASA median | SQA-V GOLD | 95 % CI for SQA-V median | Between-operator | CASA duplicates | SQA-V GOLD duplicates | |
| Sperm Concentration, ×106/ml | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 7.4–10.7 | 14.2* | 11.9–15.9 | 10.8* | 9.2–13.6 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 1.7 |
| Total Motility (PR+NP), % | 49.0 | 53.0 | 50.5 | 47.1–54.5 | 39.3* | 31.2–47.0 | 49.6 | 45.4–52.3 | 12.3 | 14.8 | 6.2 |
| Normal Morphology, % | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.3–5.4 | 3.0 | 2.0–4.5 | 4.5 | 3.5–5.8 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 1.0 |
*Significantly different than manual results (p < 0.05)