Sperm Assessment Athens, Greece

As an obstetrician – gynecologist, my priority is always the needs and requests of women, their ‘well being’ – of the patient. My initial desire is to make her feel comfortable and gain confidence in my instructions and advice.  My aim is to provide to each patient her own personalized advice-choice-treatment. For me there is no black and white, there is only my patient who has my full attention and the best service in a comfortable and friendly environment. 

Today it is possible to make the dreams of thousands of couples trying to have a baby of their own come true, bypassing significant conception hurdles. In a time when subfertility problems keep rising and fertility rates in the western world are in decline, scientific research has brought about a revolution with the development of Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART), offering us the ability to treat the majority of subfertility cases. Until now more than 1.5 million children have been born with this method worldwide. This website intends to present the scientific background on issues related with human reproduction and ART in simple terms. For practical reasons it has been divided in two parts: a short one and a more extensive one. The following sections will provide a comprehensive overview of the anatomy and function of the female reproductive system, the physiological procedure of conception, causes of subfertility and recent methods for their diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Nikolaos Th. Manias studied medicine under scholarships at the Universities of Athens, Greece, and Sheffield, UK. He graduated Cum Laude in 1977.He specialised in Obstetrics-Gynecology and Gynecological Endocrinology and Infertility (1982-1987). He has authored, co-authored and presented several scientific papers in International and Greek Meetings, he has given numerous lectures at Seminars sponsored by the Society of Hellenic Gynecological Endocrinology as well as post-graduate courses in Gynecology.He is founder as well as Director of the "Center for Assisted Human Reproduction MITROTIS", which includes a complete program of IN VITRO FERTILISATION (IVF) and INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI). Complete program of preparation of the couple for a successful IVF, ovulation induction, ovum retrieval and fertilisation (Modern Laboratory of Assisted Human Fertilisation, IVF), embryo transfer, observation of the success of implantation. The In Vitro Fertilisation nowadays has high rates of success, which at our Center are 48-50% per embryo transfer for women under 37 years old, regardless of cause of subfertility, and smaller rates of success for women older than 38 years of age. In cases of oligoasthenospermia or azoospermia a revolutionary solution for any problem of male subfertility is applied. Today, with this method (ICSI), any type of sperm regardless of count, motility, vitality, or morphology can fertilise. The rates of success of the method are very high (as in