WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2002: Re: Semen Analysis

Re: Semen Analysis - Morphology

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:10:00 -0600 (CST)

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At Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Rachel wrote: >
>Hi,
>
>My husband has just had a semen analysis and everything was okay apart
>from morphology. He has approx 56 mill sperm per ml.
>
>The clinic said they required a morphology rate of at least 3%? but my
>husband had 1%.
>
>Is it possible to conceive naturally with this level?
>
>Can you please give us an indication of how much harder this will make
>it to conceive? eg 50% less chance
>
>Many Thanks

Sounds as if there were many abnormal appearing spermatozoa. But let's suppose they were 56 million spermatozoa, and only one percent were normal. That means 560,000 normal spermatozoa exist to ejaculate, and you only need one. You do the math. It might slightly decreased your chance of conceiving naturally, but is not 100 percent decrease.

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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