Recent advances and controversies in diagnosing and treating male infertility

Interest in male infertility has increased, as it plays an important role in up to 50% of couples struggling with infertility, which is an estimated 48.5 million couples globally. Despite recent advances, diagnosing and treating male infertility remain a significant clinical challenge owing to compl...

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Autores principales: Ambar, Rafael F, Parekh, Neel, Agarwal, Ashok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculty Opinions Ltd 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659954
http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/r/22
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description Interest in male infertility has increased, as it plays an important role in up to 50% of couples struggling with infertility, which is an estimated 48.5 million couples globally. Despite recent advances, diagnosing and treating male infertility remain a significant clinical challenge owing to complex multifactorial pathways and the diversity of treatment options. This review will assess current controversial topics on male infertility such as the use of home-based semen testing, management of subclinical varicocele, and recent advances in the field of sperm proteomics.
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spelling pubmed-78860782021-03-02 Recent advances and controversies in diagnosing and treating male infertility Ambar, Rafael F Parekh, Neel Agarwal, Ashok Fac Rev Review Article Interest in male infertility has increased, as it plays an important role in up to 50% of couples struggling with infertility, which is an estimated 48.5 million couples globally. Despite recent advances, diagnosing and treating male infertility remain a significant clinical challenge owing to complex multifactorial pathways and the diversity of treatment options. This review will assess current controversial topics on male infertility such as the use of home-based semen testing, management of subclinical varicocele, and recent advances in the field of sperm proteomics. Faculty Opinions Ltd 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7886078/ /pubmed/33659954 http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/r/22 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Agarwal A et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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