Treating Male Infertility: New Possibilities

The role of microsurgical varicocelectomy in treating male infertility

Varicoceles are the most common cause of male infertility. They afflict 15-20% of the general male population and 40% of males with primary infertility. Although multiple treatment modalities exist, including radiographic embolization and laparoscopy, open subinguinal microsurgical varicocelectomy is currently the gold standard of treatment for this condition. In this article, we discuss the ro...

ACUPUNCTURE AND MALE INFERTILITY About male infertility

The clinical definition of male infertility is the presence of abnormal semen parameters in the male partner of a couple who have been unable to conceive after 1 year of unprotected intercourse (Dohle 2010). The World Health Organization defines male factor infertility as the presence of one or more abnormalities in the semen analysis, or the presence of inadequate sexual or ejaculatory functio...

New genetic markers for male infertility.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to highlight the most important advances in the field of genetics of male infertility, with particular attention to primary articles dealing with the identification of new genetic and epigenetic markers that could be translated into clinical practice in the near future. RECENT FINDINGS Copy number variations (CNVs) of the Y chromosome (gr/gr) de...

New approaches to male infertility: Forum introduction

It has been shown that reproductive potential of human population has a tendency to diminish. Approximately, 20% couples can be threatened by infertility out of those, male partners can be suspected for a leading reason of this disorder accounting for 40–60% cases. At the same time, modern techniques of assisted reproduction (ART) although quite aggressive, cannot exceed 1/3 part of couples who...

Treating Infertility by Chinese Herbs