Apr 15, 2009
By:Scott Tennant
Increasingly, urologists are finding mTESE to be one of the most effective and elegant methods of retrieving sperm from the testes.
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Sperm with less than 28% severe sperm damage are likely to produce pregnancy, data show
Mar 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
There is a significant correlation between Comet assay results and the likelihood of pregnancy using ART.
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Sperm extraction outcomes improved with later stage maturation, data suggest
Mar 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
The likelihood of successful sperm extraction may be higher at later stage sperm maturation arrest (MA), according to a study conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston that was presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting.
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Early rebound in post-surgical semen parameters suggests pregnancy success
Mar 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
Men who respond quickly to varicocele repair have a better chance of fathering children than men who take longer to respond do.
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Mar 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
Injecting an immunofluorescent dye into the testes may eventually help clinicians locate individual sperm and improve the yield from microdissection testicular sperm extraction (mTESE), researchers from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, reported at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting.
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Mar 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
Researchers are trying to identify which oligospermic men will respond to the drug clomiphene citrate.
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Feb 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
A recent prospective clinical trial found that the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil) is associated with a five-fold increase in the risk of abnormal sperm DNA fragmentation as measured by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) score.
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Feb 1, 2009
By:Fred Gebhart
Fertility clinics need more urologists, according to a study of male factor infertility information presented on fertility clinic web sites.
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More studies under way to examine possible link between infertility, somatic cancer
Nov 1, 2008
By:Cheryl Guttman
Risks of developing melanoma and prostate cancer are increased among those with a diagnosis of male factor infertility.
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