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Evaluation of Male Infertility

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The first and most important test for men still remains the semen analysis (sperm count). However, a poor semen analysis, or a low sperm count, does not rule out natural conception, and a normal sperm count does not necessarily mean that the husband’s sperm can fertilize his wife’s eggs. Men with extremely low sperm counts often have no difficulty impregnating their wives, and yet in a small percentage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles in which the semen analysis is completely normal, there is no fertilization [1–3]. Very often what seems superficially to be a “male factor” probably is really either a female factor or unknown factor.

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  1. Infertility Center of St. Louis, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Sherman Silber MD (Director, Professor of Urology)

  2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Sherman Silber MD (Director, Professor of Urology)

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Silber, S. (2018). Evaluation of Male Infertility. In: Fundamentals of Male Infertility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76523-5_9

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