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Male infertility refers to the condition, where males are incapable of producing reproductive hormones or could not produce enough hormones to make women fertile. Infertility in men can be caused by many reasons, which includes environmental, physical and mental health, etc. It can occur in any stage of a man’s life but, most of the men suffer from this at later ages. This infertility can cause many problems apart from fertility; it leads to many physical and mental illness.
Infertility is an increasing condition in modern era, due to changes in lifestyle, food, pollution, etc. These are some statistics on increasing cases of infertility. In Hong Kong A total of 387 new patients were assessed in the male infertility clinic. The mean age of the patients and their female partners was 37.2 and 32.1 years, respectively. The median duration of infertility was 3 years. Among the patients, 36.2% had azoospermia, 8.0% had congenital absence of vas deferens, and 48.3% of patients had other abnormalities in semen parameters.
The commonest causes of male infertility were unknown (idiopathic), clinically significant varicoceles, congenital absence of vas deferens, mumps after puberty, and erectile or ejaculatory dysfunction. Overall, 66.1% of patients chose assisted reproductive treatment and 12.4% of patients preferred surgical correction of reversible male infertility conditions. Altogether 36.7% of patients required either surgical sperm retrieval or correction of male infertility conditions.