6-Jul-2018
When time passes without conceiving, a couple starts thinking that there might be some fertility issues. In most cases, people think that the woman is infertile, but what about the male infertility?
Dr. Thanos Paraschos, Medical director at Embio IVF Medical Center in Greece - a center that performs more than 1800 cycles to foreign infertile couples every year - shares his view.
Male fertility has to do with the sperm quality and quantity. If the sperm is too little or the quality low or in some cases the combination of both, conceiving will be difficult to accomplish. The same time it will take time to a man to realize, and admit, that he may be responsible for not conceiving.
Depending on the source, 20% of reported infertility cases and 50% due to AUA occur as a result of male infertility. Although male infertility has no visible symptoms, apart from erection challenges, a lot of reasons might be hidden behind male infertility. Some of them are:
The good news is that a lot of the above are reversible following a medical or hormone treatment or some minor outpatient surgery and in a very short time. A couple that has not managed to conceive after one year of trying should visit a Fertility clinic, and both partners should take some tests and identify their reason of infertility. We have seen a lot of couples losing valuable time until they decide to go to the clinic and do what is necessary for restoring their fertility. In some cases they have gone through years of disappointment for something that could be treated only by some hormones or a 45 minute outpatient surgery, Dr. Paraschos states.
In many cases “problematic” semen can be “repaired” in our laboratories and then follow IVF or any other fertility treatment.
At last, when IVF is not possible due to very poor sperm quality the couple should consider other methods like IVF treatment with sperm donors (in Greece, donor anonymity is fully protected by law) or adoption.
Founded 100 years ago in Barcelona, Institut Marquès is an internationally-recognised IVF clinic specialising in IVF with egg and/or semen donation and is accredited by the Spanish Healthcare Authority...
Institut Marquès has fully licensed IVF clinics in Barcelona, Rome, London and Milan.