Looking for male fertility treatment? Do you have doubts about preservation? This technique is totally recommended for those young men who are of childbearing age who want to procreate later or because medical treatments (such as chemotherapy) should undergo, which can affect their future fertility.

Learn a little more about what is semen cryopreservation, in the article that we have written below.

What is the preservation of male fertility?

This action is possible thanks to the freezing of semen. This procedure causes the sperm to remain in optimal condition in a specialized bank, so that they can be used in the future.

This is recommended mainly for those men who must undergo complex health treatments such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which usually affect the seminal quality; Thanks to cryopreservation it can procreate in the future.

This method is also advised to those men who have suffered spinal cord injuries. In this case, semen is obtained through techniques such as electro or vibro-stimulation. In the same way, it can be extracted through the testicular biopsy or the puncture of the gland in which the testicles are connected with the ducts through which the semen (epididyde) circulates.

There are various techniques and they all have the optimal conservation of semen, for an indefinite time. Once these cells are thawed, they can be used in various assisted reproduction treatments.

How is cryopreservation performed?

It is a simple process in which patients should go to the clinic/laboratory on several occasions, preferably with sexual abstinence for 3 to 5 days, to leave the semen sample that is obtained through masturbation.

The samples are frozen in a specific and specialized environment inside various supports that will allow their maintenance in tanks that contain liquid nitrogen that are at -186 ºC and where they will be for an indefinite period of time.

With this procedure, the patient will be sure that he will have an option to use them in the future, if he so wishes.

Once the collection has been carried out, the sample is taken to the laboratory where a seminogram is carried out (its quality is verified with this). The sample is always expected to be of the most optimal quality possible.

Once confirmed that the sample is of high quality, a cryoprotective chemical is added that will be responsible for protecting the cells from low temperatures.

The various samples are loaded into “straw” that are high security and that are specifically designed for human semen. These serve to protect the sample from any possibility of external contamination agents.

Then each straw must be heat-sealed and decontaminated to be introduced into liquid nitrogen and that is when its freezing process begins at -186 ºC. Subsequently, the samples can be used at any time, because this process stops their metabolism.

When is this practice recommended?

Men who must perform oncological methods: Treatments to eradicate cancer are so aggressive that they drastically reduce or cancel the chances of reproducing, because they affect the testicular tissue.

Men who will have vasectomy: Men keep various samples of their semen, after performing this surgery, in case they want to be parents later.

In vitro fertilization: When you need to resort to this method, the parents save several samples, in case they need it.