Table 1.

Summary of reports according to distinguished aspects of ART

Category	Type of fluid	Evaluated with	Result(s)	Reference(s)
Male	Semen	Parameters	Correlated with sperms’ viability, motility, morphology, and capacitation index	[22, 25]
			Not correlated with SDF	[26]
		Disorder(s)	Correlated with azoospermia, oligo-, astheno-, and oligoasthenoterato-zoospermia	[16, 23]
		ART outcome	Correlated with sperm retrieval chance in NOA patients	[28]
			Not correlated with embryo quality and pregnancy	[26]
		Genetic	Correlated with microdeletions (AZFa, AZFb, and AZFc)	[23]
		Epigenetic	Correlated with testis and epididymis-specific promoters	[28]
Female	Serum	Disorder(s)	Correlated with subfertility	[36]
			Not correlated with PCOS and endometriosis	[32, 33]
		Epigenetic	Not correlated	[32]
		ART outcome	Controversial results regarding pregnancy	[31, 34, 35]
	Follicular fluid	Disorder(s)	Correlated with endometriosis and poor ovarian reserve, but controversialresults for PCOS	[33, 39, 43]
		ART outcome	Not correlated with fertilization rate	[40, 42]
			Correlated with embryo quality, except one study	[38–45]
			Correlated with pregnancy, except one study	[33, 38, 39, 43–45]
Embryo	SCM	ART outcome	Correlated with embryo quality	[15, 54, 55]
		Genetic disorder	Correlated with X-link disorder, thalassemia, MTHFR C677T polymorphism,and cystic fibrosis	[52, 59–62]
		Aneuploidy	Distinguished concordance rates with regarded TE/whole embryo (from 56.3to > 95%)	[63, 66, 67, 69, 75, 76]
	BF	ART outcome	Correlated with embryo quality	[58]
		Aneuploidy	Distinguished concordance rates with regarded TE/whole embryo (from 33.3to 97.4%)	[50, 51, 77–80]
	SCM-BF	Aneuploidy	Distinguished concordance rates with regarded TE/whole embryo (from 87.5to 97.8%)	[52, 53, 82, 83, 85]