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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2014 Oct 22;102(6):1534–1539. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.09.013

Table 1.

Indications for sperm fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), (24)

Indication Study
Recurrent pregnancy loss Bernardini et al. [2004]
Repeated in vitro fertilization failure Petit et al. [2005]
Oligozoospermia Martin [2007]
Asthenozoospermia Collodel et al. [2007a]
Nonobstructive azoospermia (testicular sperm) Huang et al. [1999]
Palermo et al. [2002]
Obstructive azoospermia (epididymal sperm) Sukcharoen et al. [2003]
Teratozoospermia
 Tail agenesis Carrell et al. [2004]
 Multiflagellar sperm/Macrocephalic sperm Devillard et al. [2002]
 Round head-only syndrome (globozoospermia) Morel et al. [2004]
 Double-head or multinucleated sperm Moretti et al. [2007]
 Other severe morphologic defects Lewis-Jones et al. [2003]
Genetic abnormalities
 Robertsonian translocations Sarrate et al. [2005]
 Reciprocal translocations Sarrate et al. [2005]
 Chromosome inversions Sarrate et al. [2005]
 Ring chromosome Arnedo et al. [2005]
 Klinefelter syndrome (mosaic and nonmosaic) Kruse et al. [1998]
Lim et al. [1999]
Rives et al. [2000]
 Y-chromosome microdeletions Minor et al. [2007]