What is "male infertility"?

What is "male infertility"?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What is "andrology"?; What are the main areas of andrological medicine?; What is "male infertility"? and more...

The definition of infertility is a couple who have been trying to conceive for a year and has not met with success. Male infertility relates to any problem on the male side of things which includes anything that has to do with sperm numbers or function, anything that has to do with male hormones as it applies to testicular function. What's interesting about male infertility and what's really not known by many people is that the male contributes almost 40 to 50 percent of the cases of infertility. When you look at a break down of contributing factors to infertility, the male is there almost 40 percent of the time as a problem. Almost everybody thinks that fertility is a female issue and that's really not true.