Urolog. pro Praxi, 2010; 11(6): 313-315

Azoospermia and reproductive medicine

doc.MUDr.Jaroslav Zvěřina, CSc.
Sexuologický ústav VFN a 1. LF UK, Praha

An overview is given about contemporary opinions to azoospermia. Actually techniques of reproductive medicine stressed an importance

of discrimination between azoospermia and cryptozoospermia. Genetic etiology used to be finding in 5–15 % of azoospermic

men. Azoospermia could be a result of inflammation or injury of testicles. Serious lesions of the germinal epithelium of testicles could

be a result of cytostatic therapy and/or radiation by oncological patients. Substantial part of cases of azoospermia remains unexplained.

Relatively often (in up to 30 % cases of azoospermia) is possible to obtain viable spermatozoids from epididymis (MESA) or from testicles

tissue (TESE) and use them for fertilization in vitro.

Keywords: men infertility, azoospermia, vas deferens obstruction, germinal epithelium

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