Computerized Semen Analysis (CASA)

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Computerized Semen Analysis (CASA)

For many years, evaluation of the semen has been performed by a laboratory technician looking through a microscope and manually counting sperm. It was completely aribtrary as to what was differentiated a fast moving sperm from a sperm with medium velocity or a slow moving sperm. Studies showed that different technicians would sometimes come up with very different numbers for such things as sperm counts or sperm motility.

At IVF 1, we use a sophisticated electronic imaging system to vizualize the sperm male infertility test, male infertility tests, male fertility, male infertility, male fertility test, sperm, sperm counts, low sperm counts, increase sperm counts, normal sperm count, sperm concentration, sperm motility, sperm morphology, semen analysis and a sophisticated software program to evaluate dozens of individual sperm parameters. This is sometimes referred to as CASA or computerized semen analysis.

A standard or manual semen analysis will give only a few parameters:

Volume of ejaculate

Concentration of sperm

Motility (Percent of sperm which are moving)

pH (the acidity of the fluid)

Morphology (appearance of the sperm)

A computerized semen analysis will give many more parameters that are useful to the fertility specialist. Learn about the measurements of sperm motility.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 August 2005 )