Lisa Andrology Lab Reports

In lab practice of semen analysis, it is usual the focus on the investigation of male infertility. In fact, semen analysis was born for the purpose of being used in this investigation and the vast majority of the semen analysis  performed at the Lisa Andrology Lab and their partners also have this clinical setting. On the other hand, it is interesting that in our semen analysis routine, which we called Advanced Seminal Analysis, we are periodically required for evaluating patients with clinical settings other than infertility. Likewise, we provide a significant aid for the diagnosis, because of the technology we developed for this lab test. Within the proposal of the Lisalab Reports Project, in showing all work we have developed in  Lisa Andrology Lab, we present here a case of a 21 years old patient, who recently looked for us for an Advanced Seminal Analysis. Two years earlier, this patient also took an advanced semen analysis in our laboratory to evaluate his fertility ...

The assessment of male infertility is often a complex procedure which covers the investigation of manifold disorders that impair man's ability to fertilize. Usually, the starting point for this investigation is the semen analysis, whose results may help in the diagnosis. Low sperm counts (oligozoospermia), poor vitality and poor sperm progression (asthenozoospermia) and changes in the sperm structure (teratozoospermia) are findings that are indicative of disorders affecting male fertility. Since the 1990s, experts in human reproduction and andrology have also emphasized that DNA fragmentation is a cause of male infertility. Sperm DNA is a double helix molecule, which breaks in some instances (fragmentation) impairing the chances of conception. Many infertile patients have high rates of DNA fragmentation. Among the most common causes of this disorder are mentioned genital infections causing leukocytospermia (increased leukocytes in the semen) and the excess of abnormal spermatozo...