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The Role of the Andrologist in Assisted Reproduction

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Clinical Management of Male Infertility

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Any medical or surgical therapy for male infertility is useless in the following cases: globozoospermia, aged female partner and polycystic ovary syndrome, Y microdeletions, high follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and unexplained male infertility; thus ART should be immediately started. When there is no identifiable cause of infertility and the results of the semen analysis are normal, the patients are categorized as having unexplained male infertility. Genetic defects may be involved in the cause of infertility. Thus ART might be the only way to conceive (see Chap. 10).

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  1. Andrological Section, Gynepro-Medical Group, via Tranquillo Cremona 8, Bologna, 40137, Italy

    Giorgio Cavallini

  2. Andrological and Reproductive Medicine Unit, Centro Demetra, via Della Fortezza 6, Firenze, 50129, Italy

    Giovanni Beretta

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    Giovanni Beretta

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Cavallini, G., Beretta, G. (2015). The Role of the Andrologist in Assisted Reproduction. In: Cavallini, G., Beretta, G. (eds) Clinical Management of Male Infertility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08503-6_18

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