Objective To determine correlation between hypoosmotic swelling (HOS) test on post-swim-
up sperm and results of IVF. Setting University clinic IVF program. Patients and interventions …

Purpose: To review the clinical importance of including the hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test
in routine male fertility testing which in general is not evaluated by most physicians dealing …

This study was designed to evaluate the usefulness of the hypo‐osmotic swelling (HOS) test
in predicting successful conception and the pregnancy outcome in couples in whom men …

Background The hypoosmotic swelling test (HOST) was recommended as a predictive test
for in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcome. These results, however, were controversial and the …

The ability of the hypoosmotic sperm swelling (HOS) test to identify nonfertilizing sperm
samples in a group of 50 couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) was investigated. The …

Purpose To determine if there is an increased frequency of abnormal hypoosmotic swelling
(HOS) tests when testing semen in males of advanced reproductive age. Methods Ten-year …

The hypoosmotic swelling test is a simple laboratory test to measure the functional integrity
of the human sperm membrane. Its in-vivo and in-vitro applicability needs to be evaluated …

In the present study, the effect of the concentration of the hypoosmotic solution, incubation
time and duration from sperm collection to incubation on the hypoosmotic swelling (HOS) …

We examined spermatozoa from 135 male patients consulting for infertility to evaluate the
usefulness of the hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test of sperm fertility for the swim-up washing …

Purpose To compare subgroups of the human sperm hypoosmotic swelling test subgroups
in both recurrent fertilization negative infertile cases with normal semen analysis and …