Fertility
Fertility treatments
DNA Fragmentation
The high rate of fragmentation conditions fertilization failures, which translates into sterility
DNA Fragmentation
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DEFINItion
What is DNA fragmentation?
It is an expression of testicular damage that affects your DNA and determines faults in its fundamental role, which is to fertilize and be replicated, resulting in a new being.
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treatment summary
DNA Fragmentation
This is short summary of the whole process: from the appointment request, to receiving the medical discharge after the treatment
Consultations Needed
Between two and three at least. For the doctor to talk to the patient and to review laboratory test results.
Treatment Type
Treatment will depend on the cause but often antioxidants may be indicated to try to reverse the genetic damage in the sperm.
Previous Advice
The patient must know when his/her fertile capacity declined or when he/she had his/her last child. Also, her/his health habits.
Results and Waiting Periods
The results of the treatment or the combination of them will arise according to the capacity of the organism of each patient.
Resuming Sex Life
The patient with DNA fragmentation and subjected to treatment has no impediment to sexual relations, in fact, this is recommended.
Further Tips
Ideally, the patient should stop the healthy habits that predispose him to DNA damage: alcoholism, smoking, etc.
FREQUENT CAUSES
Why does it happen? What causes it?
The quality of sperm DNA seems to get worse primarily with increasing paternal age, especially after 45 years. A series of habits (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, heat) and diseases (varicocele, obesity, infections, etc.) can affect deteriorated sperm DNA.
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The high rate of fragmentation affects fertilization failures, resulting in sterility, and first trimester miscarriages, often in the first days after attempting In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
Medical evaluation
How is it diagnosed?
Determination of DNA fragmentation is a semen analysis. There are several laboratory methods to finally get what is called a DNA fragmentation rate. This rate should generally not exceed 30% of the sperm.
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solutions
Can it be treated?
The potential damage to sperm fragmentation could be reduced by diagnosing the cause of this fragmentation and initiating treatment. When the cause is unknown or cannot be determined, different types of antioxidants and medical treatments are usually used. The rates of fragmentation can also be reduced obtaining sperm directly from the testis by testicular biopsy. This fact is of great clinical relevance in cases of couples with repeated pregnancy failure with unexplained high levels of DNA fragmentation in ejaculated spermatozoa.
