Your clinician or doctor may refer you to GHL if you are looking for treatment for male infertility.
GHL will provide a wide range of diagnostic testing to assess the factors affecting sperm health.
Services offered include:
- Semen analysis
- Post-vasectomy semen analysis
- Sperm aneuploidy
- Sperm DNA Fragmentation (SCSA and COMET)
- Oxidative stress in semen (ROS + MiOXSYS)
- Retrograde ejaculation
Producing samples
To provide the most accurate semen analysis, samples should be produced on-site at GHL at 202-71 King Street W. Mississauga. .
Ideally patients must abstain from ejaculation for 2-3 days prior to the test, but no less than 2 days and no longer than 5 days before the test. This requirement is important for semen analyses and post vasectomy analyses to ensure reliability of results. Samples that do not comply with guidelines for abstinence and collection may not be able to be processed.
All semen samples must be produced directed by GHL.
Booking an appointment
It is important to make an appointment for all semen samples whether for a comprehensive semen analysis or post vasectomy analysis. It may be necessary to give patients who attend without an appointment a specific time to re-attend.
The first appointments for post-vasectomy samples should usually be 12 weeks and 20 ejaculations after surgery and guidance should be given by the referring clinic/doctor.