What treatments are available for male infertility?

What treatments are available for male infertility?

Richard Paulson (Chief, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, USC) gives expert video advice on: What treatments are available for male infertility?; What treatments are available for female infertility?; Are there specific fertility treatments for women over the age of 35? and more...

Most important thing for a man who is diagnosed with a low sperm count is to go to a urologist and have a physical examination, because a small percentage of these men will actually have something seriously wrong with their productive track that needs to be evaluated. In one study, one percent of men who presented with infertility were finally diagnosed with some kind of testicular cancer. So we always advise our male partners to go and be evaluated to make sure that there is not something physically wrong with them. But assuming that everything else is normal, male fertilities are either treated with simple treatments or complex treatments depending how bad it is. Mild male factor infertilities and mild decreasing sperm counts can be treated with intrauterine insemination in which the sperm are concentrated and placed closer to the site of fertilization, whereas severe male factor must be treated with assisted reproductive technology in which the sperm can be injected directly into the egg and fertilization achieved in that way.