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With recently evolved diagnostic and therapeutic techniques now available for the infertile couple, even the most severe male factor problems are potentially treatable. Men previously considered irreversibly infertile may now initiate their own biologic pregnancies. Many of these significant changes have been provided by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), one of the major medical milestones of the 20th century. Despite this important technical advance, evaluation of the male patient remains essential, because a male factor is found to be contributory in up to 50% of infertile couples. The temptation to omit or to offer a compromised evaluation of men, based on the erroneous belief that the success of ICSI supersedes the need for a proper andrologic assessment, must be resisted. Of patients with male factor infertility, 70% can be treated without ICSI. Of azoospermic men, 50% can become candidates for ICSI.
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Kim, E.D., Lipshultz, L.I. (1999). Evaluation of the Infertile Male. In: Lue, T.F., Goldstein, M. (eds) Impotence and Infertility. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1105-8_9
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