Fertility tests for men to become Dads
When hurdles come your way, there is always, always the will to not give away. If any difficulties in conceiving have delayed your dreams of starting a family, there is a shining ray of hope. A new test has been developed to help men with zero sperm counts to father children through IVF.
How will it help men?
Men who don’t produce sperms could become biological fathers through fertility treatments that involved extracting healthy sperms through surgery. With current technology, the only way to find out if a man has viable sperm is to carry out surgery to look for sperm in the testes.
This test, that predicts whether men can become Dads, is a non-invasive method. Subsequently, you can prepare to welcome a baby through IVF.
How does it work?
The new test, developed by scientists in Canada, has identified two biomarkers in sperms, which can be used to predict whether sperm retrieval, or acquiring sperms through surgery, will be successful.
Dr Keith Jarvi of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, has elaborated that the holy grail of his research was to find a way to help men avoid unnecessary testicular biopsies.
Expert Speak
A UK fertility expert said the test, which will take at least a year to bring to the clinic, was "encouraging".
Indira Hinduja, a Mumbai-based infertility expert, shares, “Male infertility ac counts for almost 50% of all infertility. There is a need to have the ideal biomarker that should identify the discrepancy at an early stage. It should be easy, cost-effective and accurate with minimum side effects. The discovery of such non-invasive, highly sensitive biomarker would be helpful in eliminating the need for invasive testing. Some of the good work on the same subject has been already published in Journal of Fertility Sterility in March 2013 which is definitely helpful.”
With inputs from ANI
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iDiva
Nice blog... Fertility tests should be done on both the fertility test for men and woman when a couple can't get pregnant.
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