Semen characteristics of 49 fertile males

TY - JOUR

T1 - Semen characteristics of 49 fertile males

AU - Barratt, C L

AU - Dunphy, B C

AU - Thomas, E J

AU - Cooke, I D

PY - 1988/5/1

Y1 - 1988/5/1

N2 - We examined the semen characteristics of 49 men whose partners had conceived within the last 16 weeks. There was considerable variation in the semen results. The % of morphologically ideal forms and the absence of sperm bound antibodies appeared to be the two most important semen characteristics when assessing the fertilising potential of the samples. A large proportion of samples (70%) when compared to the WHO standards of normality, were classed abnormal, however, only 25% of the samples had greater than 2 abnormal characteristics. It is diagnostically more relevant to determine the number of abnormalities within a sample rather than categorising the sample as "normal" or "abnormal".

AB - We examined the semen characteristics of 49 men whose partners had conceived within the last 16 weeks. There was considerable variation in the semen results. The % of morphologically ideal forms and the absence of sperm bound antibodies appeared to be the two most important semen characteristics when assessing the fertilising potential of the samples. A large proportion of samples (70%) when compared to the WHO standards of normality, were classed abnormal, however, only 25% of the samples had greater than 2 abnormal characteristics. It is diagnostically more relevant to determine the number of abnormalities within a sample rather than categorising the sample as "normal" or "abnormal".

KW - Adult

KW - Humans

KW - Reference Values

KW - Semen/analysis

U2 - 10.1111/j.1439-0272.1988.tb01068.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1439-0272.1988.tb01068.x

M3 - Article

C2 - 3177904

SN - 0303-4569

VL - 20

SP - 264

EP - 269

JO - Andrologia

JF - Andrologia

IS - 3

ER -