Preventive Sperm Banking

Protecting your fertility against time

Ensure the ability to create your own offspring

Today’s men face adverse conditions in everyday life that may threaten their fertility

Psychological stress, environmental pollution, working conditions, sedentary habits, obesity, unbalanced nutrition, smoking and increased alcohol consumption, are some of the possible reasons that may provoke a gradual deterioration in semen quality. This effect increases with time and is further enhanced by age.

This is very important, as today the majority of men in reproductive age postpone their plans to have a family later in life, compared to past generations. The progress of biomedical sciences offers now the possibility to protect male fertility potential from these negative perspectives by ‘freezing’ time.

In which cases is preventive sperm freezing and cryopreservation applicable

This procedure is applied mainly in cases of men of reproductive age who have not yet created or completed their families and specifically:

  • Prior to exposure to toxic environmental factors or before their submission to operations or other therapeutic procedures that may harm the fertility potential
  • In view of use in medically assisted reproductive methods (intrauterine insemination – in vitro fertilization), in case they cannot produce a sample at a specific time or they may be absent due to professional reasons

  • After a successful treatment resulting in an increase in semen quality, which may not be maintained

  • As a sperm preservation method when sperm are collected from a testicular biopsy or epididymal retrieval, provided there is surplus quantity

  • In order to create a fertility adequated quantity of sperm for multiple collections, in cases of oligozospermia

  • When there is systematic exposure to spermotoxic agents at the living or work environment, e.g. chemicals, radiation, high temperature

  • As an act of prudence, in order to ensure that their reproductive potential will be maintained and readily available if they decide to postpone their reproductive efforts for a later time

If you belong to one of the above mentioned categories, you should seriously consider the possibility of applying this method. We hope we have helped you in your choice by providing information about reasonable questions about the process.

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