الفهرس 
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Abstract
Infertility (INF) is the failure to attain a clinical gestation after one year or more of unprotected regular sexual intercourse. Primary INF is the failure of couples to have a child. Second INF is the failure to achieve next a previous gestation (Zurlo, 2018). INF becomes a common problem, which affecting many couples. Globally, about 8.0% of couples experiences some form of INF problems during their reproductive lives (Eyo et al, 2012). This percentage means that, 70 million people have problems with INF (Messinis, 2016), and a large majority of the population treatable by assisted reproductive technologies (Santulli, 2018). There many modalities of treatment (TTT), medical TTT is the first trial and the final trial is in vitro fertilization (IVF) after failed of medical TTT. Intracytoplasmatic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is one method of ART and has become the method of choice to achieve fertilization. ICSI is a method of micromanipuiation utilized to deposit a spermatozoon directly into oocyte cytoplasm. When all other forms of assisted reproductive technique (ART) are unsuccessful, ICSI is the method of choice to overcome male INF (Veys, 2018). Intracytoplasmatic sperm injection includes utilizing of hormones to stimulate function of ovary to rise follicular growth and improve more than one oocyte. Ovulation (OVN) is elicited with human chorionic gonadotropin and surgically retrieved of oocytes and fertilized by a healthy sperm in the setting laboratory, then the oocytes fertilized outside the body Introduction 2 (in vitro), and transferred into the female uterus after 36 hours after oocyte retrieval (Belva, 2017). Embryo Transfer is the final and the most vulnerable step in ICSI TTT and has three stages. Woman needs special preparations prior to embryos transfer; embryo transfer and post-transfer phase. These preparations include; straightening of the utero-cervical angle (by exchanging position of patient, full bladder when utilizing a tenaculum and transferring), cervical preparation, performance of a dummy or mock transfer, catheter’s choice, utilize of ultrasound, eliminating the mucus or blood on the catheter and embryo after loading (by psychological intervention and post-transfer intervention) (Glujovsky, 2010) Intracytoplasmatic Sperm Injection become one of important methods for treating infertile couples and the recent study has focused on improving the embryo transfer techniques in the hope of improving the success rates of ICSI. There’s no study about demographic and clinical characteristic of infertile couples undergoing ART in Egypt. So, the current study will be conducted to describe demographic and clinical profile of infertile couples referred to International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research.