Male evaluation
Male infertility Evaluation Process
Male infertility evaluation begins with semen analysis, which is performed at the clinic with a turn around of 2 business days for the final report.
Further evaluation, if necessary, can be provided by one of our associated urologists.
If your semen analysis results are abnormal, don't become too worried. Male infertility is one of the areas of great confusion, speculations and anxiety.
Abnormal sperm analysis results usually only indicate a possibility of lower fertility. However, even in the most severe cases of male factor, modern technology has the ability to help.
Remember, we can only say with certainty that men is sterile when no sperm is found in semen analysis.
The World Health Organization guidelines refer to the semen sample as normal if:
- It is at least 2 ml in volume
- At least 50% sperm cells are motile
- At least 40 million sperm cells per ejaculate
- At least 30% of the sperm cells have normal morphology
However, a study of men undergoing vasectomy, who are proven fertile, shows a large variation, well outside normal limits.
One of the highly reputable studies into the subject suggests that anything above 5 million total motile sperm cells in ejaculate does not make any difference for fertility.
Moreover, even sperm count below 1 million motile sperm cells does not preclude pregnancy in some couples.
On the other hand, paradoxically, an apparently normal sperm sample may fail to fertilize an egg during an In Vito Fertilization (IVF) in about 5% of the cases, motivating some programs to use intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) irrespective of sperm characteristics to assure fertilization.
Only about 10% of males with infertility are carriers of chromosomal errors. Usually those are cases with severe forms of infertility where no live sperm cells are present in ejaculate.
To learn more about the male evaluation process, make an appointment or call us at (713) 467-4488.
Email us or call us at 713-467-4488 x40 to schedule your appointment with one of the leading fertility specialists in Texas. Appointments are available at our offices in Memorial City, The Woodlands, Cy Fair, the Texas Medical Center and College Station.
Advanced Fertility Center of Texas is a leading fertility clinic headed by Dr. Michael Allon, Dr. Stephan Krotz, Dr. Dmitri Dozortsev, and Mary Turner, WHNP who provide quality treatment for our patients in the Houston and College Station, Texas area.
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