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Post-Analytical aspects
– Result presentations – reports with all necessary information
– Duration of sexual abstinence
– Time between sample collection and initiation of investigations
– Note if sample has been produced elsewhere than in the lab
– Temperature between sample collection and start of investigations
– Note of time when delivered to the laboratory if not produced there
– T otal volume
– T emperature during motility assessment
– Note of any deviation from standards: e.g. number of observations
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Post-Analytical aspects
– Result presentations – reports with all necessary information
– Sperm concentration and total number
– Sperm motility: proportions of different categories
– WHO: progressive, non-progressive, immotile
– ESHRE-SIGA: rapid, slow, non-progressive, immotile
– Sperm morphology proportion ”normal” or ”typical”
– ESHRE SIGA: four categories of abnormalities + TZI
– Presence of immature germ cells or inflammatory cells
– Sperm vitality: proportion – when poor sperm motility
– Round / Inflammatory cells
– If biochemical assessments are done:
– Concentrations and total amounts
– Markers for epididymal, prostatic and seminal vesicular secretions
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