Male fertility
Contact
- Outpatients appointments
- 0203 313 5118
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Our male fertility clinic at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital helps to diagnose and treat the causes of male infertility.
This clinic offers a unique service for London and is run in conjunction with consultant colleagues specialising in all aspects of IVF and reproductive physiology. Some conditions causing male infertility are correctable by surgical means, and sometimes we are able to find sperm by surgical exploration.
Most patients are referred by our specialists in female fertility, who also run the IVF unit at Hammersmith Hospital.
Conditions and treatments
We provide both diagnosis and treatment to enhance fertility either for natural conception or as an adjunct to other fertility interventions. We treat:
- Infertility
- Oligosperma
- Azoospermia
- other sperm disorders
Treatments we offer
- Gonadotrophin
- Endocrine therapies
- Microsurgical reconstruction
- Microsurgical sperm retrival
- Testicular mapping (FNA)
- Sperm cryopreservation
- Semen analysis
- Reproductive hormone profiling
- Genetic screening
- Inflammatory and infective markers
- Joint endocrine-urological consultations
Clinics
Male infertility clinic
Address
Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 0HS
Hours
Clinic hours vary – please refer to appointment letters.
Contact information
Phone: 020 3313 5118
Sperm cryopreservation service and walk-in diagnostic semen analysis/post-vasectomy analysis service
Address
Andrology department
South corridor
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 0HS
Hours
8.30 to 13.00, Monday through Friday.
Contact information
Phone: 020 3313 4680
Further information
North West London Pathology website
Meet the team
Dr Channa Jayasena, clinical senior lecturer in reproductive endocrinology
Patient information
Before your appointment
We usually see patients within 10 weeks of referral. You are welcome to bring your partner, a relative or close friend with you to your appointment. There are no special instructions for patients attending the male fertility clinic, however, if you have had any other fertility tests, either from your GP or from other specialised units, please bring the results with you to the appointment.
Please remember to check your appointment letter for anything specific you have been asked to take with you. In addition, it would be helpful if you could bring the following:
- Your full address and telephone number(s)
- Your appointment card and appointment letter
- Your GP’s name and address
- Money to pay for any prescriptions, or an exemption card
- A list of questions you may want to ask your consultant.
During your appointment
The male fertility clinic is located alongside the specialist clinics for female fertility in the outpatient department of Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital. You are welcome to ask for a chaperone and we will endeavour to provide one for you.
Please note that we are a teaching hospital, so medical students may be present for some appointments. If you do not wish to have them in the room please let the nurse or doctor know and the students will be asked to step outside.
You can expect to be at our clinic for 60 to 90 minutes depending on the nature of your appointment. Please be prepared to take some blood tests and semen analysis. You will usually require further fertility tests, which may include ultrasound scans and blood tests. Most patients will have already had advice about important lifestyle changes to help improve fertility. It is sometimes necessary to consider an operation to discover the cause of infertility, and sometimes to retrieve sperm from the testicles. Occasionally, it may be possible to restore fertility by undertaking micro-surgical operations.
After your appointment
If necessary, you will be asked to come in for a follow-up appointment. The clinic secretary will arrange this appointment for you.
Refer to this service
Please use NHS e-Referrals to refer a patient to our male fertility service, which can be accessed via reproductive medicine on NHS e-Referrals.
GP advice
When referring patients for specific advice about male fertility, please include the results of two semen analyses, as well as results of serum analyses for FSH, LH, prolactin, testosterone and oestradiol. When patients are azoospermic, it is also mandatory to have specific viral screening tests, including hepatitis B (surface antigen), hepatitis B (core antibody), hepatitis C and HIV 1 and 2 screens.
These tests are necessary when a scrotal exploration is envisaged, which may be the only way of diagnosing the cause of the azoospermia, and of retrieving sperm directly from the testicle (a micro-TESE procedure), which then allow sperm to be stored for subsequent IVF and ICSI.
Dr Channa Jayasena is always happy to discuss specific enquiries with GPs and referring doctors.
Phone: 020 3311 7669
Email: channa.jayasena@nhs.net
Email: c.jayasena@imperial.ac.uk
Additional information
Clinical trials and research
The andrology department offers participation in clinical studies for male patients with fertility issues.
Investigating physiological effects of weight loss on male fertility
Principal investigator: Dr Channa Jayasena
In this current clinical study, the department are trying to understand how weight loss may improve male fertility. They are looking for men aged 18 to 60 years, with a waist size of 36, 38, 40 or 42 inches. This study is approved by an independent ethics committee.
For more information on what it will involve and reimbursement of expenses, please contact the reproendocrine team on 073 8729 7200. You can leave a voicemail or text message for the research team and they will contact you.'