How To Diagnose And Treat Klinefelter Syndrome

Fertility Treatment

An individual who is affected by Klinefelter syndrome and desires to have a baby may need to undergo fertility treatments. Between ninety-five and ninety-nine percent of all men with Klinefelter syndrome are considered infertile because they are unable to naturally produce an adequate amount of sperm to fertilize an egg. However, most Klinefelter syndrome patients produce some sperm, which can be manipulated by a physician to help increase the chances of egg fertilization. One type of assistive reproductive technology referred to as testicular sperm extraction with intracytoplasmic sperm injection has shown to be successful in the fertilization of an egg. During testicular sperm extraction with intracytoplasmic sperm injection, a surgeon extracts sperm from the patient's testes and manually places one into a female egg. It is best for the sperm of an affected individual to be extracted during puberty. This sperm can be frozen until it is time for their use because healthy sperm production is more likely to occur during puberty.

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