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Donor Standards
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Our
donors are recruited from the school campuses of
western Montana and eastern Washington. Most of our
donors are either currently involved with, or have finished
their higher education at the time of their participation
in
our donor program. All donors are between 18 and 35
years of age in order to minimize genetic abnormalities.
All donors are frozen in very limited quantities, in
order
to guarantee that the number of pregnancies created
from any one donor are limited. Although all donor
histories are reviewed to provide you with donors that
should give you a great chance of concieving a healthy
and normal baby, there is of course no way to
guarantee such an outcome. As all donor family histories
will present with their own unique positive and negative
attributes, we encourage all clients to review donor
information thoroughly prior to purchase and use of
specimens.
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Our
donor screening meets or exceeds the standards set
forth by the AATB, ASRM, and CFAS. (American
Association of Tissue Banks, American Society for
Reproductive Medicine, and the Canadian Fertility and
Andrology Society)
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| DONOR SCREENING |
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Screening includes the following: |
- Three
generation family health history with no indication of major
genetically linked disease
- Donors
must have a lifestyle that is low risk for contracting communicable
diseases.
- Complete
physical exam, and approval by an independent physician
- Donors
are questioned and examined for evidence of HPV infection,
but there is no currently approved testing for HPV in semen.
- Urinalysis
and Microscopic Exam
- Semen
Analysis with excellent count, motility, and normal strict
morphology study
- Drugs
of Abuse Screening
- Excellent
post thaw sperm recovery
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| Serology (blood tests): |
- CBC,
Chem 23 Panel, ABO and Rh
- HIV I/II
w/six month quarantine (EIA testing, with Western Blot use
for confirmation)
- Hepatitis
BsAG
w/six month quarantine
- Hepatitis
B Core Total
w/six month quarantine
- Hepatitis
C w/six month quarantine
- Herpes
type II (genital) by type specific antigen
- RPR (for
syphillis)
w/six month quarantine
- HTLV
I/II
w/six month quarantine
- CMV IgG,IgM
** All Donors are IgM Negative
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| Genetic
Testing: |
- Cystic
Fibrosis Mutation Analysis, 99%detection rate for all races,
entire CFTR read the most comprehensive Cystic Fibrosis
screening available anywhere, with testing for not the most
common 25 or 37 mutations as most labs do, but for more
than 1300! Testing
is performed by Ambry
Genetics Laboratory
- Other genetic testing available at clients request and expense
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| Cultures and/or Aptima Gen Probe testing is completed for: |
- Neisseria
Gonorrhoea
- Chlamydia
- Herpes
Simplex
- CMV
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| Microscopical Examination of each Donor Ejaculate for: |
- freeze-thaw
recovery motile sperm count
- Trichomonas
- Yeast
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| **More Information on CMV |
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