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Performing Laboratory
Lima Memorial Health System Laboratory
Specimen Requirements
Container/Tube: Screw-capped, sterile container
Minimum Volume: Total ejaculate
Collection Instructions:
1. Patient should practice 2 to 7 days of sexual abstinence before semen collection for accurate results.
2. Forward promptly at as close to body temperature as possible.
3. Specimens accepted from 6am to 6pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Special Instructions
Reference Values
According to AUA guidelines, occlusive effectiveness is defined as azoospermia or RNMS, which is the presence of <100,000 non-motile sperm/mL (<0.10 M/mL) based on microscopic evaluation of at least 50 HPFs, assuming no motile sperm are observed.
Specimen Stability
Body Temperature: 2 Hours
Day(s) Test Set Up
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 6am-6pm
Methodology
Manual and Automated SQA-Vision
Test Classification and CPT Coding
89321