FAQs
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Sperm
The male sex cells (spermatozoa), which are produced in the testes.
Latest News and Research
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Patient Resources
- Causes of Male Infertility - a patient education video
- El análisis de semen
- Environmental toxicants can last up to a year or longer in sperm
- Morfología de los espermatozoides: ¿afecta la fertilidad? (Sperm morphology: does it affect fertility?)
- Sperm Morphology (Shape): Does It Affect Fertility?
- Q01: What is Infertility?
- Opciones de fertilidad despues de la vasectomia (Fertility options after vasectomy)
- Analisis de la integridad del ADN de los espermatozois (Sperm DNA integrity testing: what is it?)
- Male Infertility Evaluation: What Do I Need To Know?
- Evaluacion de la infertilidad masculina que debo saber (Diagnostic evaluation of the infertile male)
- Tecnicas quirugicas para extraccion de espermatozoides (Surgical techniques for sperm removal)
- Diagnostic Testing for Male Factor Infertility
- Fertility Options After Vasectomy
- Optimizing Male Fertility
- Surgical Sperm Retrieval in Men With Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF): What Are the Risks?
- Male Cancer, Cryopreservation, and Fertility
- Infertilidad: un resumen (Infertility: an overview booklet)
- Pruebas diagnósticas para la infertilidad masculina (Diagnostic tests for male infertility)
- Cancer masculino criopreservacion y fertilidad (Male cancer, cryopreservation, and fertility)
- Optimización de la fertilidad masculina (Optimizing male fertility)
- Assisted reproductive technology 辅助生殖技术辅助生殖技术
- Defining Infertility
- Diagnostic Testing for Female Infertility
- Infertility: An Overview (booklet)
Publications
- The clinical utility of sperm DNA integrity testing: a guideline (2012) members-only
- Diagnostic evaluation of the infertile male: a committee opinion (2015)
- Disclosure of medical errors involving gametes and embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion (2016)
- The management of infertility due to obstructive azoospermia: a committee opinion (2008) members-only
- Vasectomy reversal: a committee opinion (2008) members-only
- The management of infertility due to obstructive azoospermia: a committee opinion (2008)
- Vasectomy reversal: a committee opinion (2008)
- Diagnostic evaluation of the infertile male: a committee opinion (2015) members-only
- Optimizing natural fertility: a committee opinion (2016) members-only
- Recommendations for reducing the risk of viral transmission during fertility treatment with the use of autologous gametes: a committee opinion (2013) members-only
- Fertility preservation for patients undergoing gonadotoxic therapy: a committee opinion (2013)
- Optimizing natural fertility: a committee opinion (2016)
- Sperm retrieval for obstructive azoospermia: a committee opinion (2008)
- The clinical utility of sperm DNA integrity testing: a guideline (2013)
