Semen Characteristics of 49 Fertile Males

Autor:	B.C. Dunphy, E. J. Thomas, Ian D. Cooke, Christopher L.R. Barratt
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	medicine.diagnostic_test urogenital system Urology media_common.quotation_subject Sample (material) Who standards Semen Fertility General Medicine Semen analysis Biology Sperm Andrology Semen quality Endocrinology medicine Normality media_common
Zdroj:	Andrologia. 20:264-269
ISSN:	1439-0272 0303-4569
Popis:	We examined the semen characteristics of 49 men whose partners had conceived within the last 16 weeks. There was considerable variation in the semen results. The % of morphologically ideal forms and the absence of sperm bound antibodies appeared to be the two most important semen characteristics when assessing the fertilising potential of the samples. A large proportion of samples (70%) when compared to the WHO standards of normality, were classed abnormal, however, only 25% of the samples had greater than 2 abnormal characteristics. It is diagnostically more relevant to determine the number of abnormalities within a sample rather than categorising the sample as "normal" or "abnormal".
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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