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Sperm Storage |
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The cryopreservation of human semen provides an option to future sterility and the hope for progeny for men whose fertility is endanger by selective vasectomy, therapeutic surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or for those men whose occupation puts them at risk of losing their fertility. Given the opportunity to make this choice, patients often approach their condition more optimistically, feeling they have regained some control over their future.
The years that ReproMed has invested in cryobanking made us aware that our services can produce important attitudinal changes in our clients. They are not as overwhelmed by their circumstances when they realize that they can still make choices to positively affect their lives. Our experience also has shown us that many men learn of our services only after their surgery or therapy is completed and their disappointment, and ours, is immeasurable.
To provide the number of specimens required to possibly achieve a pregnancy, the patient would be advised to schedule three or four appointments, each preceded by a minimum of three days abstinence of an ejaculation. Blood and semen screening is required before the initiation of storage. This step is required to ensure that the stored specimens will not contaminate others with infectious diseases. Separate, dedicated, quarantined tanks are available for those patients who are in need of immediate storage without being able to wait for the results of the blood and semen screening. Collection could be also arranged without traveling to our facility using our Cryofly™ kit.
Semen storage should be considered a viable option for those men faced with a possible threat to their fertility. State-of-the-Art technology in the field of Reproductive Medicine has extended this option to those with existing fertility problems. The clinical application of semen cryopreservation has been demonstrated to be a proven and effective method of treatment for those individuals concerned with impending infertility. Data indicates that long-term semen storage does not reduce fertilizing capacity. It had been demonstrated that little or no loss of cryosurvival occurs after 25 years of storage at -196°C although there may be a slight change in the quality of motility (i.e. non-progressive versus progressive).
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