Up to 6% of men who have undergone vasectomy will ultimately elect for reversal in the form of vasovasostomy or vasoepididymostomy for various reasons. Vasovasostomy performed to regain fertility is a technique that has undergone numerous advances during the last century, including the use of microsurgical equipment and principles to construct a meticulous anastomosis. It is important during va...

PURPOSE We compared vasoepididymostomy to microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration and intracytoplasmic sperm injection for treatment of epididymal obstruction secondary to vasectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Results in patients who underwent vasoepididymostomy for vasectomy reversal at our institution were compared to those reported previously for microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration and ...

Male reproduction and male contraception form an important spectrum within men’s health. In this issue’s Views Reviews, four author groups detail new developments in vasectomy clinical practice guidelines, emerging investigational techniques the fields of hormonal nonhormonal contraception, useful paradigms for patient care when deciding between sperm extraction with vitro fertilization reversa...

Decision on which is the best treatment for a problem that has more than one way to be dealt with goes much further from exclusively looking to the final results. Decision must include which are the final results you are looking for, how many variables are present in both options, money expenditure to reach the result and finally, how much resources are available for it. The beginning of 90’s b...

BACKGROUND Each year 40,000 men have a vasectomy in the UK whilst another 2400 request a reversal to begin a second family. Sperm can now be obtained by testicular biopsy and subsequently used in assisted conception with ICSI. The study aims were to compare sperm yields of men post-vasectomy or with obstructive azoospermia (OA) of unknown aetiology with yields of fertile men and to assess any a...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com 50%. With the recent advances in assisted fertilization such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), the couples suffer from infertility would like to choose assisted fertilization and nearly 1 million cycles ICSI were carried out in China every year, eve...