European Association of Urology guidelines on Male Infertility: the 2012 update.

EAU guidelines on male infertility.

More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not?

guidelines are not ‘upgraded’ following panel consensus. This statement further confused me. After discussing and analyzing this information with some andrological experts in China and abroad, I decided to express my perspectives on this problem. The estrogen receptor modulator, tamoxifen, when combined with testosterone undecanoate (TU), was shown to be an effective treatment choice for male i...

When to Perform Karyotype Analysis in Infertile Men? Validation of the European Association of Urology Guidelines with the Proposal of a New Predictive Model.

Known genetic alterations play a major role in perturbing male reproductive health. We sought to retrospectively validate the European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines for karyotype analysis (KA) in a homogenous cohort of 1168 White European men presenting for primary couple's infertility (noninterracial infertile couples only) and to develop a novel nomogram capable of predicting karyot...

Should sperm DNA fragmentation testing be routinely used in assessing male infertility?

Semen analysis (SA) is the cornerstone for male infertility evaluation. Variations in sperm quantity and quality may make SA an unreliable decision-making tool in providing an insight of infertility (1). Consequently, efforts have been made to upgrade techniques of male fertility analysis. In recent times, primary investigative techniques have centered around assessing sperm capacity, sperm fun...

Varicocele — A Dilemma for the Urologist Current Concepts

Although varicocele repair is widely used as a treatment for male infertility, the effectiveness of varicocelectomy has been a focus of intense debate for nearly 50 years. A number of conflicting reports in the literature has resulted in divergent guidelines by various professional groups. The American Urological Association (AUA) and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) recomm...