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Are the sperm used for conventional ivf and icsi scanned for chromosome abnormalities first?
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No: No. They only do preimplantation genetic testing on the fertilized embryo. The problem is the process of testing a single sperm to look for abnormalities destroys that sperm. So once you know that the sperm was normal, you can no longer use it.
Answered 4/21/2017
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