Male infertility is defined as the inability of the male to cause pregnancy in a fertile female. In humans, 40-50% of infertility is due to some problem with the male. It affects about 7% of all men and it is due some deficiency in semen quality.
There are reports from All India Institute of Medical Sciences that over 12–18 million couples in India suffer from infertility every year.
AThere are several reports suggesting that there is gradual reduction of sperm count in various countries of Europe and USA. Sperm count of a normal Indian male used to be 60 million/ml thirty years ago, it is now around 20 million/ml.
Delhi IVF & Fertility Research Centre is a leading Male infertility treatment clinic in India. Most of the cases of male infertility are due to ejaculatory dysfunction or sperm quality. These disorders are characterized by failure of the male to deposit good quality sperms into the vagina for some reason or the other. Some of the causes are as follows:
When there is a tubal blockage in one or both the tubes, the egg gets obstructed reaching the uterus and the sperm gets obstructed reaching the egg, thus, preventing the fertilization process and pregnancy.
Each month, during the ovulation, an egg is released from one of the ovaries. The egg travels from the ovaries through fallopian tubes to the uterus. The sperm is also required to swim towards the egg from the cervix through uterus, and through the tubes. The process of fertilization generally takes place while the egg is traveling through a tube.
When there is a tubal blockage in one or both the tubes, the egg gets obstructed reaching the uterus and the sperm gets obstructed reaching the egg, thus, preventing the fertilization process and pregnancy.
Premature ejaculation.
Retrograde ejaculation.
Impotence or the inability to maintain an erection(diabetes).
Smoking,
Excessive alcohol intake,
Fatty diet,
High blood pressure and the drugs used to treat high blood pressure.
Environmental pollution, such as lead, cadmium, mercury, ethylene oxide, vinyl chloride, radioactivity, and x-rays
Cigarette or marijuana smoke, heavy consumption of alcohol
DES (Diethylstilbisterol) exposure in uterus
Air, water and soil pollution with plastic solvents which are esterogeneic.
Exposure of the genitals to elevated temperatures — hot baths, whirlpools, steam room or at work sites.
Hernia repair
Undescended testes.
Genital infection
About 90%of couples with male infertility have the problem of the complete absence of sperms (azoospermia), or low sperm count (Oligospermia), poor quality of sperm or (Immotile sperms) or abnormal sperms. At Delhi IVF, even a few healthy sperms are enough to fertilize the eggs by Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
Treatment for cancer, radiation therapy or chemotherapy can also impair sperm production sometimes. Removal of one of the testicles due to any disease like cancer also may affect male fertility. At Delhi IVF we can freeze and store sperms, before the treatment for cancer is initiated.
Around 30% to 75% of infertility in men is due to some infection ] of the reproductive organs. The presences of anti-sperm antibodies, which assault and obliterate the sperms, are normally a decent marker that an infection is present. Such diseases are typically treated with antibodies..
Ejaculatory Duct Obstruction presents with a low discharge volume on semen along with no sperm number or low sperm motility. Ejaculatory conduit impediment is the reason for fruitlessness in 1-5% of infertile men. Albeit abnormal, ejaculatory conduit block is determined and treated to have negligibly intrusive procedures. In some cases, there is the complete absence of vas deferens. At Delhi IVF we can overcome this problem by surgical procedures as TESA, MESA or TESE.
Genetic problems.
Having medical treatment such as drug treatment, radiotherapy or surgery– for example, to correct a hernia, undescended testes or testicular torsion twisted testicles.
Varicose veins.
Also affected by lifestyle factors such as being overweight or having a job that involves contact with chemicals or radiation..
