SPERM COUNT (CONCENTRATION)
Description
20- 150 million/ml
Clinical significance
- Sperms are reproductive cells in semen that have a head, midsection and a tail. A healthy sperm count is often necessary to conceive. Even though it takes only one sperm and one egg to get pregnant, more healthy sperm will increase the chances of pregnancy
- Sperm concentration or count is the number of sperm in each ml of semen. Total sperm count is the sperm concentration multiplied with volume
- Azoospermia is absence of spermatozoa in the semen. Low sperm count (<20 milliom /ml) is known as oligospermia
When to get tested
A semen analysis is done when infertility (pregnancy fails to occur within one year of regular unprotected intercourse) is suspected
Elevated level
- Polyzoospermia : count is more than 250 million /ml
Decreased level
Azoospermia
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Hypothalamic/pituitary tumour
- Primary testicular failure
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Kallmann syndrome
- Varicocele
- Chemotherapy, radiation
- Vasectomy
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Severe illness
- Congenital absence of vas deferens
- Undescended testicles
- Epididymitis
- Orchitis
Oligospermia
- Varicocele
- Smoking
- Prior surgeries in pelvis
- Stress
- Unhealthy life style
- Hormonal imbalance
- Diabetes
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Pituitary disorder
Profile
Semen Analysis
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