Male Infertility Guideline
Khawla Hospital
Acronyms:
ART | Assisted Reproductive Technique |
SIA | Semen analysis |
NOA | Non-obstructive azoospermia |
OA | Obstructive azoospermia |
OAT | 0 ligo-Astheno-Teratospermia |
mTEST | Microdissection Testicular Sperm Extraction |
ICSI | Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection |
IUI | Intra-Uterine Insemination |
RPL | Recurrent pregnancy Loss |
IVF | In Vitro Fertilization |
CFTR | Cystic Fibrosis Trans-membrane conductance Regulator |
VD | Vas Deferens |
CBAVD | Congenital Bilateral Absence of the Vas Deferens |
CUAVD | Congenital Unilateral Absence of the Vas Deferens |
1 - Definitions
1.1 Male infertility: the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse
1.2 Primary male infertility: male who has never initiated a clinical pregnancy and meet the criteria of being classified as infertile.
1.3 Secondary infertility: a couple where the man is unable to initiate a clinical pregnancy but who had previously initiated a clinical pregnancy (with the same or different sexual partner)
1.4 RPL: two or more failed pregnancies.
1.5 Azoospermia: absence of sperms in ejaculate
1.6 Oligospermia: sperm concentration less than 15 million/ml
1.7 Severe Oligospermia: sperm concentration less than 5 million/ ml
1.8 Pyospermia: white blood cells more than 1 million / ml
1.9 Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism: is secondary hypogonadism