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Infertile?  Don't be so sure...

If you have been told the cause of infertility is the male partner is not producing sperm (a condition known as azoospermia), come to us before taking the donor route.  Nearly half of our infertility cases involve male problems but we find a high number of these are not what they at first seem to be.

The reason for this is simple, the basic sperm analysis on which many consultants and clinics base their diagnosis is indicative, but not conclusive.  At Scion, we go one vital step further by offering RCS (Rapid Centrifugal Spinning) which is a more revealing investigation and may be able to find what others have missed.

RCS detects very minute quantities of sperm, too small to register in conventional analysis, and isolates these for harvesting.  As few as 10-20 means that IVF or ICSI can commence immediately.  The RCS procedure also confirms a zero sperm count which, in most cases, removes any need to consider the cost of surgical extraction for genuine azoospermia sufferers.

If the sperm count is even lower, we have two surgical procedures, PESA and TESE, which can extract viable sperm if even the tiniest amount is present. 

Sometimes, donor sperm is the only option but, for many supposedly infertile males, there may be another the solution.