By Phillip E. Patton, David E. Battaglia

A finished and practice-oriented source advisor to presently to be had diagnostic and treatment plans for male infertility problems. subject matters coated diversity from easy sperm biology and male reproductive endocrinology, to immunology, really good sperm checking out, and the genetic heritage to male infertility. The authors emphasize the research, diagnostic trying out, and administration of the infertile male, but additionally research such well timed matters as gender choice, HIV discordance undefined, and posthumous replica. different themes of curiosity contain laboratory accreditation, vasectomy reversal, moral and criminal concerns of donor insemination, optimizing luck in a donor insemination application, and strategic cures for ejaculatory issues and erectile disorder in infertile males.

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