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Male factor infertility in 2011

Semen quality, sperm selection and hematospermia

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The past year has seen several new developments in the field of male reproductive health, including a major revision of how urologists should assess semen quality following the release of new WHO guidelines, novel approaches to sperm selection for intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and changes in how clinicians might evaluate and treat patients with hematospermia.

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  1. Department of Urology, Yale–New Haven Hospital, Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Avenue, 3rd Floor, New Haven, 06519, CT, USA

    Amichai Kilchevsky

  2. Division of Urology, University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, 06030, CT, USA

    Stanton Honig

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Kilchevsky, A., Honig, S. Semen quality, sperm selection and hematospermia. Nat Rev Urol 9, 68–70 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2011.234

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