Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa and primarily serves the market for privately insured individuals, representing approximately eight million people. The group provides mainly acute care, high technology private hospital services.
The extensive hospital network includes 64 hospitals (of which 57 are majority owned by Life Healthcare and another seven in which the group holds substantial minority ownership), providing a range of healthcare services throughout South Africa.
What are the options available for helping conception in case of a low sperm count?
Drug treatments: There are many drugs to treat a low sperm count, including androgens, testolactone, FSH injections, steroids, kallikrein, clomiphene and antioxidants. Antibiotic treatment to clear an infection of the reproductive tract may also help treat male infertility.
IVF: IVF, in vitro fertilization, takes sperm and injects it directly into the egg, bypassing problems with sperm delivery.
IUI: IUI, intrauterine insemination, is artificial insemination carried out by injecting specially treated sperm into the womb.
ICSI: ICSI, intracytoplasmic insemination, is an IVF procedure that injects a single sperm into an egg and transfers it to the uterus.
PESA: A small amount of sperm is removed through a thin needle and used in ICSI.
TESA: Mature sperm are extracted using a thin needle and used in the ICSI procedure.
TESE: Sperm is removed through extracted tissue from the testicles and used in ICSI.
About Low Sperm Count
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