Sperm/Andrology Lab: Overview

Male-factor infertility occurs in approximately 40 percent of couples who are unable to achieve a pregnancy. Severe male-factor infertility accounts for 25 percent of infertility. Less than 10 percent of male infertility can be successfully treated with surgical or medical therapies.

Fortunately, there are some other therapies for the remaining 90 percent of couples desiring pregnancy.

Some will be helped by superovulation with drugs such as Pergonal, Metrodin and Humegon along with intrauterine insemination or by standard in vitro fertilization (IVF).

For those who are unsuccessful with these therapies, there is now another promising therapy called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).