Category Archives: Male factor
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Dr Robert Brannigan discusses the basics of evaluation of the male partner. Upto 50% of couples will have a male factor component as a cause for their infertility. An urologist specializing in male infertility has several options to optimize the male. Continue reading
Laptop computers connected to the internet through Wi-Fi may decrease sperm fertility potential.
This blog reviews a recent paper which suggests that radio frequency electromagnetic waves (RF-EMW) from laptop computers connected to the internet decrease male fertility potential. Heat from the computers may also have a negative impact on male fertility. The investigators suggest that the negative effect from RF-EMW is independent of the effect of heat. Continue reading
Does the shape of the sperm (morphology) matter?
Assessing the shape of sperm (morphology) is an important part of a semen analysis. At InVia Fertility Specialists we have been using the “strict” criteria for sperm morphology for many years. In this blog, Kelly Schorsch discusses the reason we use the “strict” criteria for assessing sperm morphology. Management of patients with abnormal sperm morphology (teratospermia) is also discussed. Continue reading
Celebrating ICSI’s twentieth anniversary and the birth of more than 2.5 million children
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI is a widely used technique for treating severe male factor infertility. Using a micro manipulator, a single sperm is injected into the cytoplasm of an egg. Pregnancies are achieved even in men with a “zero” sperm count using testicular sperm! This blog discusses an interesting paper by one of the original researchers of ICSI where the history of ICSI is discussed. Continue reading
What’s sperm got to do with it?
Factors that can effect sperm quality are discussed in this blog. Continue reading










