Male Factor Problems and Fertility

One of the best kept secrets in the world of infertility is that, believe it or not, "human factor" plays an important role in up to 50% of infertility cases.

Despite the figure, only a small fraction (about 5%) of our patients are officially diagnosed with a form of "male factor" involvement. However, when the sperm of the variables taken into account (eg, sperm count, motility, morphology, etc.) Many people are swept away like only a "borderline case" male factor in participation, and describes the limits does not have an impact. "Borderline case" value for value is still technically a "sub-normal" and the other is really "optimal". The fact is that most of the increase in medical clinics only need one sperm to fertilize an egg with the process of IVF called ICSI (intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection). Thus, with regard to assisted reproductive technology for male infertility part of the equation is a twisted little or no attention

Unfortunately, this ignores the very important facts. For starters, many clinics do not see three important factors: the number of sperm, sperm motility and sperm morphology. However, there are many other aspects of sperm health beyond these three. Appearance is not everything in the world of sperm. For example, newer technology now shows that there may be significant DNA fragmentation (DNA damage) in sperm cells that "look good" and showed "normal" according to the basic parameters ... and DNA fragmentation is a test. There are many other potential factors that contribute to suboptimal sperm that science has not yet identified.