Male infertility refers to a sexually mature male's inability to impregnate a fertile female. It can wholly or partially account for 40 percent of infertility among couples and affects approximately 7 percent of all men. Male infertility is commonly due to deficiencies in the semen, with semen quality serving as the main diagnostic measure of male reproductive capacity.
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Body SystemSourced to the subject's own account ICD-10 ChapterXIV: Diseases of the Genitourinary System 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Connections
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Source Intracytoplasmic sperm injection - Wikipedia
Source Artificial insemination (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Microsurgery
Source Sperm donation (Wikipedia)
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1. Male infertility (Wikipedia)
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Urology, andrology
2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
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Diseases of the genitourinary system
3. Wikidata: Male Infertility
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Subclass of: infertility
Artificial insemination (Wikipedia)
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IUTPI can be useful in unexplained infertility, mild or moderate male infertility, and mild or moderate endometriosis.
Sperm donation (Wikipedia)
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The primary recipients of donor sperm are single women and lesbian couples, but the process may also be useful to heterosexual couples with male infertility.
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection - Wikipedia
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This procedure is most commonly used to overcome male infertility problems, although it may also be used where eggs cannot easily be penetrated by sperm, and occasionally in addition to sperm donation.
Wikipedia: Microsurgery
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Microsurgery has been used to treat several pathologic conditions leading to infertility such as tubal obstructions, vas deferens obstructions, and varicocele, which is one of the most frequent cause of male infertility.
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